Kathleen Newton
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Kathleen Irene Ashburnham Newton was an Irish-British model, best known for her many sittings with the French artist James Tissot. Her artistic relationship with Tissot quickly turned into a romantic
Painting by James Tissot, A Type of Beauty, 1880.
James Tissot, Mavourneen, 1877.
James Tissot, The Dreamer (Summer Evening), 1881.
James Tissot
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Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a yo
Kathleen Newton
…Kathleen Irene Ashburnham Newton (née Kelly; 1854–1882) was an Irish-British model, best known for her many sittings with the French artist James Tissot. Her artistic relationship with Tissot quickly turned into a romantic one, and the two lived together, representing themselves as a married couple, for…
Self-Portrait (1865), oil on canvas
Faust and Marguerite in the Garden, 1861
Still on Top, c. 1873. Note the two lower figures wearing a red Communard cap and a Japanese obi-style sash.
Sovereigns No. 8, Wilhelm I (Les mangeoit pour soi refraischir devant souper), 1871