Arthur Haden

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-334

Artist: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

Date: 1859

State: 4/4

Size: 22.5 x 15.2 cm

Medium: Drypoint

Details	Drypoint. Black ink on dark cream paper (Japan). Signed ‘Whistler 1859’ in print at bottom left. Thirty impressions are known.
Description	Detailed information concerning the Whistler prints held in The Orchar Collection comes from the University of Glasgow’s excellent Whistler Etchings Project. (Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk). Considerable thanks are due to Professor MacDonald for allowing us to use their research in these entries. A portrait of Arthur Charles Haden (1852-1910) aged around seven who was the youngest son of Whistler’s half-sister Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) and Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910).A.C. Haden grew up to be a professional musician based in Dundee and Broughty Ferry and it is likely that he came to know Orchar during this period. Newspaper clippings held in Dundee Central Library, Local History Centre, Lamb Collection 258(11) note a performance by the ‘Dundee Ladies Orchestra’ at Kinnaird Hall, Bank Street, Dundee on Wednesday 13 December 1882. The Orchestra was formed by Haden who also led on violin. His wife, Annie Eliza, was soprano. Many of the orchestra had never handled a violin before its formation only five months previously. The Wizard of the North (30 November 1881) adverting the event noted “Mr Haden has striven well for the elevation of musical taste in the town and the Wizard and the public will be pleased to witness a new triumph of his zeal on the 19th prox”. Dundee Central Library, Local History Centre. A.C. Haden died on 28 June 1910, aged only 57, in his home at 26 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee from complications relating to diabetes.
Exhibited Dundee	It was likely that it was this print, titled Master A.C. Haden, that was exhibited at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1880 (Fourth Gallery, No. 886, no price) and either already in Orchar’s collection or subsequently bought by him. Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 1880, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum
Catalogue Entry	Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (61) Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (61) Ralph Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of J.A M. Whistler. London, John Russell Smith, 1874 (59) Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (47) Whistler Etchings Project (66)
Other Collections (UK)	British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, UK Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Victoria and Albert Museum: Print Collection, London, UK See the Whistler Etchings Project for a list of impressions.
References	Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists. Paris, Gründ, 2006 Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979 Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977 Katharine A. Lochnan, The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1984 Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995 William Rough, ‘A cluster of butterflies: James Guthrie Orchar and his collection of Whistler etchings and drypoints’, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, Volume 16, 2011-12

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