The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Selsey Bill dates from 1881.

Selsey Bill, Private Collection

Fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 863).

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Subject

Site

Selsey Bill, Private Collection

Whistler stayed at the house of Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890) at Selsey Bill in Sussex on the south coast of England.

Technique

Technique

Selsey Bill, Private Collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 863).

History

Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow;
• 1924: passed by family descent to his son, John Bernard MacGeorge (1897-1965), Glasgow;
• 1958: sold from the collection of J. B. MacGeorge, at auction, Morrison, M'Chlery, Glasgow, 16 May 1958 (lot 117) and bought by Roland, Browse & Delbanco.
• Date unknown: said to have been bought from an art dealer for Robert Owen Lehman (1891-1969).
• Date unknown: bought by a private collector.

Neither the early nor recent provenance is entirely clear. The Pennells however were wrong in thinking this was owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874). ¹

Exhibitions

• 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. 129) as 'Selsea Bill'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 863) as 'Selsey Bill'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 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. 129) as 'Selsea Bill'.

Books on Whistler

• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, repr. f.p. 61 as 'Selsey Bill'.