The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Elinor Leyland dates from 1873/1875.

Elinor Leyland, Fitzwilliam Museum

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 514).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Elinor Leyland, Fitzwilliam Museum

Elinor Leyland (1861-1952).

Technique

Technique

Elinor Leyland, Fitzwilliam Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 514).

History

Provenance

• 1870s: probably acquired by Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892), Liverpool and London;
• 1892: possibly sold at auction, Christie's, London, 28 May 1892 (lot 3) as 'A Girl Seated' and bought by Edmund F. Deprez (1851-1915), London art dealer.
• 1903/1905: owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874), Kensington Gore, London;
• 1940: deposited by her son, Guy John Fenton Kino or Knowles (1879-1959), in the Fitzwilliam Museum;
• 1959: bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Exhibitions

• 1903-1904: possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 9) as 'Study of a Young Girl' or 1904 (cat. no. 19) as 'Study of a Child'.
• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 187) as 'Figure of a Child'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 514) as 'Elinor Leyland'.

Books on Whistler

• Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, repr. p. 245.

Websites

• Fitzwilliam Museum website.