Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan. Royal Academy highlights the model who was so much more than a muse
By James Brewer
All who knew her were enthralled by her Pre-Raphaelite beauty, with enchanting pale blue eyes and tumbling copper-gold hair. Immortalised as a model by the American artist James McNeill Whistler who spent many years in London, Joanna Hiffernan was much more than a muse. The woman whom Whistler enlisted for his renowned The White...