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Description: | Royal (1) Inscr. in pencil by Whistler; "1 The little White girl - / Blue wave - / 1 Nocturne in pink & silver - / 1 Symphony in White No 3 - / 1 Harmony in Purple & gold / 1 The Lange Liza of six marks / The Mothers picture / Miss alexander - / 1 Nocturne - / 1 Taking down the scaffolding of old Westminster / 1 Harmony in flesh & green balcony / 1 Old Battersea bridge" - / Sea & Rain. mere gerard (last word underlined) - Swinburne. / Trouville. - / Valparaiso. / Valparaiso Quay - Peter. Brighton."
(2) Inscr. in ink by H. Faraday; v. "ers Street London . W. / mar 12 1881 / ay / the things had / St. to be charged / you / our man / today but could / an opal screen / on any proofs / talogue you / d me? / ould you let / the cost of / ars of last Octr. / thinking whether / be worth while / / - another batch / next month. pending the / preparation of catalogue- / I suppose the drawing / F.Barnard made for / me of 5-light chandr. & / the Standard you lithoed / could be included in / the pages of catalogue / without re-drawing - / Yours very truly / H. Faraday /- " (on letter-headed paper) CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) Whistler's first full-length portrait of Sir Henry Cole KCB (1808-1882) was being painted in 1876 and was probably destroyed at the time of his bankruptcy. It is also likely that Whistler destroyed his second portrait, which he was working on in December 1881 and was left incomplete at Sir Henry's death on 18 April 1882. It is a sketch for this portrait that Whistler drew (bottom right) from memory after seeing the sitter in a cab in evening dress. This sketch was drawn on the back of a fragment of a letter from H.Faraday to Thomas Way, dated 12 March 1881. The five paintings sketched by Whistler are "Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks" (YMSM 47) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, "Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music Room" (YMSM 34), "Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen" (YMSM 60) both in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA, possibly "La Mere Gerard" (YMSM 26) in a private collection and "Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz" (YMSM 41) in Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, USA.
This work was presented to the University of Glasgow by Mrs R.B. Kauffman in 1972. | 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 : SCREEN : READING : SEASCAPE : INTERIOR : JAPONISME : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | 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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