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Description: | Royal inscr. in pencil; v. "74" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) As with the earlier "Reading By Lamplight" (GLAHA 46720), Whistler used a central light source. The figures seated round the table reading are the artist's half-sister Deborah, his brother-in-law Seymour Haden, and Haden's medical partner, James Reeves Traer. This is a Rembrandt-inspired night-piece. It is also Whistler's first use of surface inking to create chiaroscuro, a technicuqe which Delatre, the printer of the 'French Set' had shown him earlier in 1858. Bequeathed by Joseph Whistler Revillon, 1955. | 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: | INTERIOR : LAMPLIGHT : PICTURE FRAME : DEBORAH HADEN : FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN : JAMES REEVES TRAER : NEWSPAPER : READING : BOOK : WHISTLER CENTENARY : IAA : | 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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