UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

portrait, woman.

An unidentified drypoint is recorded twice in inventories of Whistler's studio:


'Lady C. C' (1890/1891, Whistler). 2
'Colin Campbell Lady Dry Point Indication' (1890/1892, Beatrice Whistler (1857-1896)). 3


The title, Lady Colin Campbell has been chosen, as agreeing with the records of both Whistler and his wife.

A portrait of Lady Colin Campbell.

Harmony in White and Ivory: Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell [y354], 1886, after Whistler's oil,
Whistler Collection, Glasgow University Library,
Pickford R. Waller press-cutting album, PC 22/51.

Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell (Lady Colin Campbell) (1857-1911). Whistler painted Harmony in White and Ivory: Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell [y354] in 1886, and both he and his wife were friendly with Lady Colin Campbell in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

There are very few extant portraits that could possibly be identified with this. One possibility is Young Woman Standing [333], reproduced above, which shows a fashionably dressed woman, but unfortunately the features are too faint to identify the sitter with certainty.

If the word 'Indication' meant that it was a slight sketch or sketches on a plate, then other possibilities are Three studies of women's heads [400] and a portrait known only from the copper plate, A young woman with a fan [376], and finally The Busby [368], which is tentatively identified as a portrait of Lilian Pettigrew (b. 1870).