Charles Sydenham Haden
Date of birth: 1822.09.22
Place of birth: Chelsea
Date of death: 1898
Category: collector, relative
Identity:
Charles Sydenham Haden was a London merchant and collector.
Life:
The son of Charles Thomas Haden (1786-1823) and Emma Harrison, he married Mary Love Boott. They were relatives by marriage with Whistler and appear to have lived at Lyons, a silk manufacturing centre. An autograph letter from Daria Haden to Joseph Whistler Revillon mentions Charles Haden, Rosie Boot [sic], Belle and Mary Boot [sic] and gives general family background information.
Haden owned a complete set of Whistler's French Set of etchings on chine collé, which was sold at auction at Sotheby's in London on 18 November 1931 (lot 103).
Bibliography:
Postcard from W. H. Carey to Frederick W. Coburn, sent to Joseph Whistler Revillon, Boston, 14 October 1945, Department of Special Collections, University of Glasgow, MS Revillon 2/62; autograph letter from Daria Haden to Joseph Whistler Revillon, Little Woodcote, Shripney, near Bognor Regis, 10 July 1945, Department of Special Collections, University of Glasgow, MS Revillon 3/162 ; http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search (accessed August 2009); http://www.thepeerage.com (accessed August 2009).
