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

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Portrait of Mrs Waldo Story

Titles

One title is suggested:

  • 'Portrait of Mrs Waldo Story' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

Jacques Émile Blanche (1861-1942) originally described it as 'Mrs Waldo Story, en rouge', but in 1919 he grouped it with 'certains portraits de la série des "arrangement en noir et en brun", comme ... Mrs Waldo Story.' 2

Sitter

Ada Maud Broadwood (Mrs Waldo Story) (1856-1932).

Ada M. Broadwood, daughter of an Englishman, T. Capel Broadwood, and granddaughter of Alfred Hennin, the New Orleans jurist, married a close friend of Whistler, the American sculptor, Thomas Waldo Story (1855-1915) in Rome in 1883. In that year, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) painted Mrs Waldo Story (private collection), a fine three-quarter-length portrait of her in a black evening dress. 3

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 250).

2: Blanche 1905 [more] at p. 358; Blanche 1919 [more], p. 60.

3: Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: complete paintings, vol. 1, The early portraits, New Haven, 1998 (cat. no. 104).

Last updated: 1st November 2019 by Margaret