The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Portrait of Jerome Elwell was being painted in 1900 and may have been continued in the following years, 1901-1902. ¹

Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936) saw D. Jerome Elwell (1847-1912) sitting to Whistler on 5 August 1900. ² In 1902 Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) of Detroit saw the portrait of ‘Mr Elwell the artist’ in Whistler’s London studio. ³

Images

Subject

Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

• 'Portrait of Jerome Elwell' (1980, YMSM). ⁴

Description

Unknown.

Sitter

Daniel Jerome Elwell, usually known as D. Jerome Elwell (1847-1912), American landscapist and illustrator, and an old friend of Whistler. He was born in Gloucester, MA, and died in Naples, Italy. His Venetian pastels are similar to – and have been mistaken for – Whistler's work. Elwell accompanied Whistler on holiday to Holland in 1900.

Technique

Technique

Unknown.

Conservation History

Unknown.

Frame

Unknown.

History

Provenance

• Unknown.

Exhibitions

• Unknown.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 536) as 'Portrait of Jerome Elwell'.

Authored by Whistler

• None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• None.

Journals 1855-1905

• None.

Monographs

• None.

Books on Whistler

• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, pp. 203-04.
• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 169, 173.

Books, General

• None.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• None.

Journals 1906-Present

• None.

Websites

• None.

Unpublished

• Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 238).

Other

• None.