The Journal begins with Patricia de Montfort, who teaches art history at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Research Curator for the Whistler Collection at the Hunterian. In Whistler’s Late Portraits of Ethel Birnie in the Hunterian Collection, it is interesting to have contemporary photographs of the sitter to compare with Whistler’s paintings of his sister-in-law, and the documentation of the artist’s dissatisfaction with his work and obsessive repainting. In the
