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

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Gay Paget in the garden of Wortley Hall, Yorkshire

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Wortley Hall, the family seat of Lord Wharncliffe, is six miles south-east of Barnsley in Yorkshire.

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                    Gay Paget in the garden of Wortley Hall, Yorkshire
Gay Paget in the garden of Wortley Hall, Yorkshire

Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline Paget (Mrs R. G. Wlndsor-Clive) (1863-1944) . The daughter of Augustus Berkeley Paget, KCB, H.M.Ambassador, she lived before her marriage at 14 Wimpole Street where she would have been a neighbour of Whistler's brother William McNeill Whistler (1836-1900), who lived at No. 21. She married Robert George Windsor Clive on 11 August 1883. A wealthy landowner, he was Colonel of the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan from 1890, Paymaster General 1891-2, first Commissioner of Works in 1902, and was created first Earl of Plymouth in 1905; he also wrote John Constable RA (London 1903). They had four children, the eldest being born in 1884.

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