![]() ![]() I: The White Girl at a studio in Boulevard des Batignolles and in 1864–65 she posed for Symphony in White, No. She was in France with Whistler during the summer of 1861, and while in Paris during the winter of 1861–62 she sat for Symphony in White, No. When Whistler's mother visited from America in 1864, alternative accommodation had to be found for Hiffernan, who also seems to have been the cause of Whistler's quarrel with Alphonse Legros in 1863. However, Hiffernan seems only to have modelled for friends, so perhaps the objections to her made by Whistler's family were based more on social class than on Hifferman's personal character. Whistler's family did not approve of Hiffernan, as unmarried artists' models, and especially those who posed nude, were considered at that time to be little better than prostitutes. ![]() ![]() She gave Whistler the constant companionship he could not do without." She was intelligent, she was sympathetic. Whistler's biographers and friends, the Pennells, wrote of her, "She was not only beautiful. Physically striking, Hiffernan's personality was even more impressive. ![]() Whistler first met Hiffernan in 1860 while she was at a studio in Rathbone Place, and she went on to have a 6-year relationship with him, during which period she modeled for some of his most famous paintings. ![]()
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