The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Beefsteak Club dates from about 1887.

Beefsteak Club, Private Collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1159).

Images

Subject

Site

Beefsteak Club, Private Collection

The Beefsteak Club, a men's club near Leicester Square, London, seen also in Beefsteak Club m1158 and possibly Two men sitting in a bar m1160.

Technique

Technique

Beefsteak Club, Private Collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1159).

History

Provenance

• 1903: with Walter Dowdeswell (1858-1929), London art dealer.
• 1922: bought from Captain E. Scott Brown by Colnaghi, London art dealers, 9 June 1922;
• 1925: sold to Scott and Fowles, New York dealers, 5 June 1925.
• Date unknown: acquired by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939), New Orleans;
• 1939: passed by family descent to a private collection.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition 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. 1159) as 'Beefsteak Club'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Menpes, Mortimer, 'Reminiscences of Whistler, recorded by Dorothy Menpes', The Studio, vol. 29, September 1903, pp. 245-57, repr. p. 246.