Arthur Haythorne Studd

Arthur Studd (Biographical details)

Arthur Studd (painter/draughtsman; collector; British; Male; 1863 - 1919)

Also known as

Studd, Arthur; Studd, Arthur Haythorne

Biography

Painter, trained at the Slade and the Académie Jullian, Paris; exhibited at the New English Art Club; pupil, friend and then patron of James McNeill Whistler (q.v.) of whom he formed a small but important collection and bequeathed to the Tate three superb oil paintings. He left his prints by Whistler to an American friend, J Kent Sanders, with the request (but not injunction) that he should bequeath them to to the BM. A decade later Mr Sanders, then residing in Florence and in bad health, presented them to the BM, with the request that they be regarded as the bequest of Arthur Studd (see report by Dodgson dated 4 December 1929).

Studd and Whistler worked togther in Lyme Regis and Dieppe, and had his portrait drawn in c.1897 (Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow; MacDonald 1499) and he seems only to have ever owned one drawing by him, 'Chelsea Fruit Shop' (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard; MacDonald 1117).

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=106131 I.S. 1/9/2018