James Tissot
Jacques Joseph Tissot (Anglicized as James Tissot) was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. I love his paintings! One of my biggest regrets from the past year was that I couldn't visit Paris to see his exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay. It is good that we have the Internet!
In 1875–1876, Tissot met Kathleen Newton, a divorcee who became the painter's companion and frequent model. She gave birth to a son, Cecil George Newton in 1876, who is believed to be Tissot's son. She moved into Tissot's household in St. John's Wood in 1876 and lived with him until her death in the late stages of consumption in 1882. Tissot frequently referred to these years with Newton as the happiest of his life, a time when he was able to live out his dream of a family life. This group portrait includes Kathleen Newton on the left, Cecil, Kathleen's daughter Muriel Mary Violet Newton, and two unidentified figures. The setting appears to be Tissot's garden in St. John's Wood, London.
So sunny and so beautiful!
P.S. Here you will find out more on the perfect world of perfect women in James Tissot’s paintings! <3