Beatrice Whistler
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Beatrice Whistler was born in Chelsea, London on 12 May 1857. She was the eldest daughter of ten children of the sculptor John Birnie Philip and Frances Black. She studied art in her father's studio a
c. 1887
Harmony in Red: Lamplight used Beatrice as the model
Ethel Philip reading a newspaper by Beatrix Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a
Beatrice Whistler
…Godwin who was an architect-designer. On 4 January 1876 she became the second wife of Edward Godwin. Following the death of Godwin, Beatrice married James McNeill Whistler on 11 August 1888. Edward Godwin and Beatrice had a son together, also called Edward (1876–1957), who became known as a sculptor. He created the bronze…
Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter (self portrait, c. 1872), Detroit Institute of Arts
Portrait of James McNeill Whistler by William Boxall, 1848
Portrait of Whistler with Hat (1858), a self-portrait at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862), The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.