James Abbott McNeill Whistler Lithograph, MAUDE READING,
Maud Franklin (9 January 1857 – ca. 1941) was an English artist and the mistress of and model for artist James McNeill Whistler.[ Franklin was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, one of six children of Charles Franklin, an upholsterer and cabinetmaker, and Mary Clifton, after whom she was christened 'Mary'.She may have posed for Whistler as early as 1872, as a stand-in for his portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland, when she was fifteen. By the late 1870s, she was serving as a model to Whistler for etchings and painted portraits, most notably the Arrangement in White and Black. She also was the initial model for what would be the Portrait of Miss Florence Leyland, as well as Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour, numerous other oils, drawings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs. Franklin had two daughters by Whistler: Ione (born circa 1877) and Maud McNeill Whistler Franklin (born 1879). She sometimes referred to herself as 'Mrs. Whistler', and in the census of 1881 gave her name as 'Mary M. Whistler'.

DIMENSIONS with frame : Height 18 inch / 46 cm
Length 12.25 inch / 31 cm

DIMENSIONS with out frame: Height 11.50 inch / 29 cm
Length 6.75 inch / 17cm