A Girl Seated on a Sofa Reading a Book (1884-1886). Beatrix Whistler (English, 1857-1896). Oil on wo
A Girl Seated on a Sofa Reading a Book (1884-1886). Beatrix Whistler (English, 1857-1896). Oil on wood. Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.Whistler exhibited under the pseudonym ‘Rix Birnie’ (an adaptation of her maiden name, Beatrice Birnie Philip), and called herself 'a pupil of Whistler’ when she exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, 1885-8. This painting, in olive and brown tones, may be a portrait of the artist’s younger sister, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). -- source link
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