About This Artwork

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
English, 1872-1898

Portrait of Whistler in Spanish 17th Century Costume, 1892/1898

Pen and black ink, on ivory wove paper
78 x 85 mm
Gift of Walter S. Brewster, 1933.224

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

A. E. Gallatin, Portraits of Whistler (John Lane Company: New York, 1918), p. 81, no. 216.

Samuel Foote, Theodore Hook, Walter Jerrold, Bon Mots (J.M. Dent & Company: London, 1894), p. 190.

Ownership History

Pickford Waller, London. Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954, Lugt Suppl., 2651 a-b), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.