By far the best part of the day although I don't think it links to my current project. The top drawing was in a separate room and I hadn't thought much of this gestural sketch until I continued looking around the gallery and stumbled across the magnificent replica of Whistler's 'Peacock Room'. This simple design was transformed into this decadent piece all for the redesigning of one of F R Leyland's rooms. The mark making in the piece is brilliant for the difference in brush strokes and appliance of the marks. Learning about the story behind the piece was really interesting as well as Leyland had only imagined small changes and refused to pay Whistler in full due to the artist changing too much. Later, 1879, Whistler blamed Leyland for his bankruptcy.
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