Lady Caroline Paget (1913- 1973) (The Girl with a Red Rose)
Rex Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1935 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
440 x 330 mm
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1176011
Caption
Lady Caroline was the love of Rex Whistler's life. However, his love was unrequited.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Caroline Paget, later Lady Duff (1913 - 1973) (The Girl with a Red Rose) by Rex (Reginald John) Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944), signed and dated 1935. A portrait of Lady Caroline Paget looking into a mirror, wearing an off the shoulder yellow dress holding her hair back with her left hand and with a red rose in her black-gloved right hand.
Marks and inscriptions
1935 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
Rex Whistler (Eltham 1905 - Normandy 1944) , artist
References
Cecil & Cecil 2012: Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life & Work, London, 2012, p. 134