Portrait of Mrs Isabel Marion Galsworthy dates from 1873/1877.

Portrait of Mrs Isabel Marion Galsworthy, Private Collection

An inscription in unknown hand on paper stuck to the back of the frame reads: 'A portrait of Mrs Isabel Marion Galsworthy wife of Frederick Thomas Galsworthy sketched on brown paper by J.McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) casually one day after luncheon at her house No.8 Queens Gate, London, S.W. in the year 1877.' However, the signature suggests an earlier date.

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 540).