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Maud Franklin (9 January 1857 – 18 November 1939) was an
/ref> She may have posed for Whistler as early as 1872, as a stand-in for his portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland, when she was fifteen.Spencer, 88 By the late 1870s, she was serving as a model to Whistler for etchings and painted portraits, most notably the ''Arrangement in White and Black''. She also was the initial model for what would be the ''Portrait of Miss Florence Leyland'', as well as ''Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour'', numerous other oils, drawings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs. Franklin had two daughters by Whistler: Ione (born circa 1877) and Maud McNeill Whistler Franklin (born 1879).Spencer, 88 She sometimes referred to herself as 'Mrs. Whistler', and in the census of 1881 gave her name as 'Mary M. Whistler'. She was not always well treated by Whistler; at the time of his libel trial with
During the 1880s, she exhibited her own artwork at the
''The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler'', University of Glasgow
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artist and the mistress of and model for artist James McNeill Whistler.Spencer, 24Spencer, 88
Franklin was born in Bicester
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, Oxfordshire, England
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, one of six children of Charles Franklin, an upholsterer and cabinetmaker, and Mary Clifton, after whom she was christened 'Mary'.University of Glasgow/ref> She may have posed for Whistler as early as 1872, as a stand-in for his portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland, when she was fifteen.Spencer, 88 By the late 1870s, she was serving as a model to Whistler for etchings and painted portraits, most notably the ''Arrangement in White and Black''. She also was the initial model for what would be the ''Portrait of Miss Florence Leyland'', as well as ''Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour'', numerous other oils, drawings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs. Franklin had two daughters by Whistler: Ione (born circa 1877) and Maud McNeill Whistler Franklin (born 1879).Spencer, 88 She sometimes referred to herself as 'Mrs. Whistler', and in the census of 1881 gave her name as 'Mary M. Whistler'. She was not always well treated by Whistler; at the time of his libel trial with
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in January 1879 he left Franklin, then pregnant, in a London hotel under the pretense that he was in Paris. Following Whistler's bankruptcy later that year, she accompanied him to Venice, but was not accepted into society. In the 1880s her health suffered, and she was the subject of watercolors by Whistler depicting her in bed.
During the 1880s, she exhibited her own artwork at the Grosvenor Gallery
The Grosvenor Gallery was an art gallery in London founded in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife Blanche. Its first directors were J. Comyns Carr and Charles Hallé. The gallery proved crucial to the Aesthetic Movement because it prov ...
under the pseudonym
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Clifton Lin, and at the Society of British Artists.Spencer, 88
After Whistler married Beatrice Godwin in 1888, Franklin moved to Paris. She married a New York man named John A. Little; in 1904 he died, and around 1911 Franklin married another American, Richard H.S. Abbott, and lived near Cannes
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until her death in 1939 aged 82.Spencer, 88
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References
* Spencer, Robin, ''Whistler''. Studio Editions Ltd., London, 1993.''The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler'', University of Glasgow
{{DEFAULTSORT:Franklin, Maud 1857 births 1939 deaths 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters English artists' models People from Bicester People from Cannes