Self-portrait, Rex Whistler, circa 1933

Caption from the museum this portrait was probably painted in 1933 when whistler was 28 years old. He stands confidently against a romantic landscape under dark, looming clouds, with one of the twin boycott pavilions of stowe rising up behind him in the distance. Allusions to the eighteenth century gardens at stowe in buckinghamshire had also been made in the mural whistler had been commissioned to paint onto the walls of the tate restaurant (1928). The subject depicted was 'the pursuit of rare meats,' a story which he had devised in collaboration with edith olivier (1872-1948) whom he had met in 1925. A successful novelist, olivier lived at daye house in wilton park. Whistler painted a number of striking portraits of olivier and the cecil family, whom he had met through her. Olivier bought this painting at the private view of an exhibition at the french gallery in 1933. Object Type: painting. Date: circa 1933. Dimensions: 41 × 37 cm (16.1 × 14.5 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Unknown. Rex Whistler - Self-Portrait 1933