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Description: | Unframed s. in plate with butterfly; c.l. CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) This is an etching plate. Having been introduced by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabrielle Rosetti, Liverpool shipping magnate, F. R. Leyland, became Whistler?s most important patron. In the coming years, it was Leyland who commissioned some of Whistler?s most important works and the advances that he paid Whistler against such commissions helped fuel the artist?s lifestyle in Chelsea. This image is possibly a preparatory study for a much larger portrait of Leyland that he himself commissioned Whistler to paint in the style of the Spanish master, Velasquez. (See also GLAHA 49991/50326).
Birnie Philip Gift, 1935, not lendable. | 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: | CANCELLED PLATE : PORTRAIT : FULL-LENGTH : 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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