The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1128
Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists
Date
Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists dates from between March and August 1887. It dates from the 64th Annual Exhibition, Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1887.
Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists, National Gallery of Art, DC
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1128), as 'Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists' and dated '1886/7'. The record has been corrected.
Images
Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists, National Gallery of Art, DC
Chelsea in Ice, Colby Museum of Art
, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Description
Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists, National Gallery of Art, DC
Chelsea in Ice, Colby Museum of Art
, Freer Gallery of Art
The sketches show Chelsea in Ice y053 and Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay y076.
Technique
Conservation History
Whistler's pictures at the Royal Society of British Artists, National Gallery of Art, DC
Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists, National Gallery of Art, DC
Whistler's pictures at the Royal Society of British Artists was originally on the left half of a sheet of paper, with Paintings hung at the Royal Society of British Artists on the other half.
History
Provenance
- 1917: probably bought from Messrs Dowdeswell by Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 3 April;
- 1919: sold by Colnaghi's to Daniel H. Farr (d. 1976), Philadelphia dealer, 20 June.
- 1930: probably bought from Charles Sessler (1854-1935), Philadelphia dealer, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) on 17 July 1930;
- 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, but housed at Alverthorpe until 1980.
Further detail is given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1127-28).
Exhibitions
The drawing 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. 1128) as 'Paintings hung at the Society of British Artists'.
Websites
- National Gallery of Art website as 'Two Sketches of Landscape Pictures hung at the Society of British Artists'.