Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

Home > Catalogue > Browse > Portrait of Lady Redesdale <<   >>

Portrait of Lady Redesdale

Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

  • 'Portrait of Lady Redesdale' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

Lord Algernon B. Redesdale (1837-1916) described it as a 'full-length of his wife in draperies of Chinese blue silk.' 2

Sitter

Lady Redesdale, photograph, National Portrait Gallery NPG x27950
Lady Redesdale, photograph, National Portrait Gallery NPG x27950

Lady Clementine Redesdale (1854-1932) née Clementine Gertrude Helen Ogilvy, daughter of the seventh Earl of Airlie, married Algernon Bertram Mitford – Lord Algernon B. Redesdale (1837-1916) – in 1874. 3

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 189).

2: Pennell 1908 [more], vol. 1, p. 201.

3: See the National Portrait Gallery website at http://www.npg.org.uk.

Last updated: 12th November 2019 by Margaret