Caroline Frances Denny
Title: Mrs
Birthname: Hamilton
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1814 or 1815
Date of death: 1848
Category: relative
Birthname: Hamilton
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1814 or 1815
Date of death: 1848
Category: relative
Identity:
She was the niece of Whistler's father, George Washington Whistler. She married St Clair Denny. They had seven children.
Life:
Her third child, Annie, posed to Whistler for Portrait of Anna Denny y004.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 4).
The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2004.
