Rex Whistler : the artist and his patrons

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Rex Whistler : the artist and his patrons

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Whistler's cast of patrons reads like the Who's Who of his time: the art collector and poet
Edward James, the avid diarist and socialite Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon, Lord and Lady Louis
Mountbatten, Cecil Beaton, Duff and Diana Cooper, author and poet Lady Dorothy Wellesley
and many others for whom Whistler worked on a diverse range of commissions, from murals,
portraits and bookplates to architectural improvements and even book illustrations. The
exchange with his patrons, the book argues, gave Whistler an opportunity to explore a rich
variety of subjects, materials and techniques.
The artworks discussed in the volume range from a recently re-discovered painting for
Sir Malcolm Bullock, a substantial history painting unique in Whistler's oeuvre, to the
magnificent murals at Port Lympne and Trent Park designed for Sir Philip Sassoon, one
of the greatest hosts of the age, to Plas Newydd, where Whistler created one of the largest
private mural schemes in the inter-war period for the 6th Marquess and Marchioness of
Anglesey. It culminates with Maud Russell's mansion at Mottisfont, where in 1938-39 the
artist was painting one of his finest works in trompe l'oeil as war loomed over Europe, the
war in which Whistler gave his life for his country.
Whistler's commissioning circle were both diverse and privileged, with many embracing
the sexual fluidity of the time, and the book deepens our understanding of how the elite were
protected by their wealth and position from the strict societal mores of the 1920s and 30s.
The artist understood the importance of creating beautiful private spaces for all his clients;
but, for some, at a time when homosexuality was still illegal, he was painting murals in
houses that were acknowledged havens where sexual preferences could be expressed without
fear of discrimination.