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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in pencil with butterfly; c.l.
(2) Watermark; Strasbourg lily
(3) stamp; v. square stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PRINT WAY, Thomas Robert; (English; 1861-1913) The sitter for this portrait is Whistler?s brother, William Gibbs McNeill Whistler, who was two years younger than Whistler and described by their mother as "the gentlest of my two boys". Whistler had great faith in his brother?s abilities as a doctor and when his wife, Beatrix, became ill in the late summer of 1894, Dr. Whistler travelled from London to Paris to examine her. However, Whistler could not accept his brother?s diagnosis that Beatrix was terminally ill with cancer, and they quarrelled. This lithograph was temporarily forgotten about by Whistler and it was Beatrix who sent it to Thomas Way to be printed. When the proofs were returned, Whistler was pleased with the results and requested that additional impressions be pulled. This lithograph was printed by Thomas Way. (See also GLAHA 49105/49106/49466/49599).
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 : FIRELIGHT : DR WILLIAM WHISTLER : 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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