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Description: | inscr. in pencil by [Harold Wright?]; b.l. "Mrs Whibley" CRE WHISTLER, Beatrix; (English; 1857-1896) The sitter is the artist's sister, Ethel Birnie Philip (1861-1920). Her nickname was Bunnie. She worked as a secretary for Whistler from 1890 until her marriage to the American writer, Charles Whibley (1859-1930) in 1894. She posed for many of Whistler's paintings and drawings, now in the Hunterian collection (see for example GLAHA 46318, 49035). Beatrix Whistler often drew Ethel in fashionable clothes.
This could be a sketch for a larger oil composition. There is possibly a flower arrangement or vase on the table, which has leaves at either end, and a drawer with two handles. This has been drawn on the other side of an invitation card to P. Wilson Steer's one-man show at the Goupil Gallery, London, 24 February 1894.
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958 | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : WHIBLEY, MRS CHARLES : PHILIP, ETHEL BIRNIE : CHAIR : TABLE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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