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in New York City. This full-length portrait shows the subject on stage standing before a pinkish-grey curtain, in an obvious allusion to her alleged stage career. She wears a light grey dress trimmed in pink
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was an American expatriate and one of the most accomplished portraitists of his time. However, the artist had become bankrupt in 1879, following his lawsuit against the critic
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was also commenced in 1881. This canvas was probably destroyed by the artist in a dispute with the sitter, however a photograph of it exists in the Whistler Archives,
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The Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Vol. 1, Paintings: American, British, Dutch, Flemish, and German
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offered Whistler his first significant commission after the bankruptcy. Her full-length portrait, known as
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Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
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Whistler painted a second portrait of Lady Meux in 1881 called
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Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain
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is a name given to several full-length portraits by
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Arrangement in Black, No. 5 (Portrait of Lady Meux)
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Arrangement in Black, No. 5 (Portrait of Lady Meux)
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Arrangement in Black, No. 5 (Portrait of Lady Meux)
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Honolulu Museum of Art

Frick Collection
James McNeill Whistler
Valerie Susan Meux
Sir Henry Meux
Holborn
James McNeill Whistler
John Ruskin
Lady Meux
Honolulu Museum of Art
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Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Prince of Wales
Princess Alexandra
1882 Paris Salon
Frick Collection
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University of Glasgow
Portrait of Lady Meux in Furs, photograph of lost oil painting
Arrangement in Black, No. 5 (Portrait of Lady Meux), drawing in brown ink by James McNeill Whistler, c. 1881
James McNeill Whistler
Ellis, George R.
Ellis, George R.
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