Artwork of the Week - James McNeill Whistler

[artinliverpool]

Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-26. ‘Speke Hall No 1′ etching and drypoint 1870 by James McNeill Whistler at Lady Lever Gallery 3 July - 20 September 2009Did you know that Whistler made several visits to Speke Hall?? It was the country home of his ship-owning patron Frederick R Leyland.In 1870 Whistler made this etching [...]

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[ChrisGeorge]

Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-26. ?Speke Hall No 1′ etching and drypoint 1870 by James McNeill Whistler at Lady Lever Gallery 3 July - 20 September 2009Did you know that Whistler made several visits to Speke Hall?? It was the country home of his ship-owning patron Frederick R Leyland.In 1870 Whistler made this etching [...]

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Great artist and its wonderful to have that Liverpool connection to him. He did a number of sketches of Speke Hall. Since I work in Washington, D.C., I have visited the Peacock Room (http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/peacock/default.htm) at the Freer Art Gallery at the Smithsonian on a number of occasions. The Room, spectacularly decorated by Whistler and commissioned for Frederick R. Leyland's London mansion, is well worth a visit by anyone who is travelling to D.C.

Incidentally I have just noticed that etching of Speke Hall is the wrong way round. The garden entrance visible on the right side of the hall should actually be on the left or near the southwest corner of the hall.

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