Charming Portrait of Portrait of Annie by the American Master James Whistler Now at the House of Stow Fine Arts House of Stow Fine Arts is please to exhibit , Portrait of Annie better remembered as Annie Haden Wonderful portrait by James Whistler . Annie Haden, was a niece of Whistlers and the daughter of Seymour Haden. The etching is not to be published among the Twelve Etchings from Nature, having only been available as an independent print. Annie Haden was the eldest daughter of Whistlers half-sister, Deborah and the famous etcher, Sir Francis Seymour Haden. At the time of this etching, she would have been about 10 or 12 years old. Seymour Haden started as a Dr of Medicine and appointed to Queen Victoria BUT also a Artist that was best known as a etcher -print maker . YES a big Promoter in the BRITISH PRINT REVIVAL MOVEMENT of the Period . It was hin that was responsible for the first to PENCIL HIS ETCHINGS at the Time the Rival and close friend and brother in law James Whistle started to use this famous Butter Fly Monogram on his engraved signed proofs . Whistler was born to George Washington Whistler, a prominent engineer, and Anna Matilda McNeill in Lowell, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1842 his father was employed to work on the railroad in Saint Petersburg, Russia. After moving to Saint Petersburg, the young Whistler enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and also learned French. At the Ruskin trial (see below), Whistler claimed Russia as his birthplace: I shall be born when and where I want, and I do not choose to be born in Lowell, he declared. After the death of his father in 1849, James Whistler and his mother moved back to her hometown of Pomfret, Connecticut. He attended local school and then transferred to the United States Military Academy at West Point, where his father had once taught drawing. His departure from West Point seems to have been due to a failure in a chemistry exam; as he himself put it later: If silicon were a gas, I would have been a general one day. In European society, he later presented himself as an impoverished Southern aristocrat, although to what extent he truly sympathized with the Southern cause during the American Civil War remains unclear. https://etsy/listing/191390647/annie-haden-etching-by-james-whistler?ref=shop_home_active_1 The Plate signed image is one of the most charming of Whistlers early etchings, this portrait study of Annie Haden was etched around 1859. Later impression of James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903) ANNIE SEATED etching . Attributed a impression that would been sold from the The Vincent Price Collection around 1960s measuring 5.25 inches by 4 inches plus margins on wove paper. Little discoloration far from the etched work and even toning on verso. Note impressions on wove are attributed to the ones sold from the Vincent Price Collections & Sears in the 1960s were on wove paper and not laid BUT the quality is till much the same of the works offered by Frederick Keppel , N .Y. C. ( printed on laid paper) . The etching is not to be found among the Twelve Etchings from Nature, having only been available as an independent print. Annie Haden was the eldest daughter of Whistlers half-sister, Deborah and the famous etcher, Sir Francis Seymour Haden. At the time of this etching, she would have been about 10 or 12 years old. James Abbott Mac Neill Whistler was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo art for arts sake. He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for Whistlers art was characterized by a subtle delicacy, in contrast to his combative public persona. Finding a parallel between painting and music, Whistler titled many of his works harmonies and arrangements. We offer a vast selection priced for every budget and you will be pleased with the results. Take a look at the unique Fine Art ranging from a Picasso to Rembrandt and many other styles and period. We have been selling for the past 45 years and have a long respected Customer Feed back for service , detail and following on every purchase. New items are being added daily and priced for every taste and pocket book . James Stow House of Stow Fine Arts Miami , Florida , USA 1+305 756 9514 All Major Credit Cards excepted , Ship Globally and insured with Great Customer Service .Feel free to contact us , if you are looking for a special gift or work of art . We also take consignments and offer consulting services.
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