Kathleen Newton in the Garden ('En plein Soleil')

(James Jacques Joseph Tissot)

This charming panel shows Kathleen Newton (nee Kelly), Tissot’s companion and mistress, with members of her immediate family. Muriel, the young girl on the rug is her illegimate daughter, Violet Newton (b. 1871) while the other little girl with the parasol is her niece, Lillian Harvey. Sitting on the wall is her sister, Mary Harvey, who ruffles the hair of Cecil George Newton (b. 1876), who may well by Tisssot’s illegimate son.

The Marquis of Bristol

Illustrated Weekley Sketch, 29th December 1954
‘James Tissot’ Catalogue Raisonne of his prints, by Michael Justin Wentworth, 1978, p. 154. cat. no. 34
‘James Tissot’ by Michael Justin Wentworth, published spring 1983, no. 131

Grosvenor Gallery, 1878, as “Spring”, no. 31 together with etchink no. 158
Redfern Gallery, 1954, ‘Plaisirs de l’epoque 1900’, as ‘La femme a la robe blanche’, no. 8, together with etching no. 369
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1955, ‘James Tissot, An