The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Beefsteak Club dates from about 1887. The sheet is mounted in an album with other drawings acquired by Whistler's son Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935).

Beefsteak Club, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1158).

Images

Subject

Site

Beefsteak Club, The Hunterian

Whistler enjoyed the cuisine and company of the Beefsteak Club, a men's club in comfortable premises off Leicester Square, London.

Similar scenes appear in Beefsteak Club m1159 and Two men sitting in a bar m1160.

Technique

Technique

Beefsteak Club, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1158).

Conservation History

This is one of several drawings that were bound into an album, possibly by the Redfern Gallery, London, ca 1950.

History

Provenance

• 1890s: acquired, probably from the artist, by his son, Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935).
• 1952: bought on 8 December from the Redfern Gallery, London, by the Hunterian Art Gallery.

Written on the verso at some other time (in black ink) was a list of people, probably to be invited to a private view, possibly at the Society of British Artists. It includes the artist Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) and potential patrons like Lord Dunraven – Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin (1841-1926). It also includes Whistler's son, Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), who was probably told to give invitations to the people on the list, and so acquired the sketch.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1158) as 'Beefsteak Club'.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.