The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Interior of the British Artists exhibition dates from 1886/1887. It shows the velarium hanging the Suffolk Street galleries during the Winter Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1886.

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1124).

Images

Subject

Site

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art

Whistler sat in one of the small southern galleries, looking towards the information desk in the large central room in the Suffolk Street Galleries of the Society of British Artists.

Technique

Conservation History

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute

Interior of the British Artists exhibition m1123 and Interior of the British Artists exhibition m1124 are two halves of the same sheet of folded notepaper.

History

Provenance

• 1886/1887: acquired by Whistler's son, Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935).
• Date unknown: bought by Sir Robert Clermont Witt (1872-1952);
• 1952: bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1124) as 'Interior of the British Artists exhibition'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 100, 187 (cat. no. 110), repr. p. 100.

Websites

• The Courtauld Institute of Art website at http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk.