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

 

M.1282
Mother and Child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Thomas Colville Fine Art
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on board
Size: 11 x 7 1/8" (279 x 181 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Mother and Child

Sitter

Mother and Child, Private Collection
Mother and Child, Private Collection

Probably Rose Amy Pettigrew (b. 1872) , probably with her niece. The sisters' older brother Alfred and his wife Jane had a little girl, Harriet Lilian, in 1885. Another baby, Ethel Jenny, was born in 1893. She remembers being taken to visit Rose and could therefore have been 'Baby Pettigrew'.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret