Reginald Hector Whistler (22 January 1905, in Jersey, Channel IslandsSt Helier baptisms record 8/5390 – 1978) was a painter, muralist and illustrator. He was the cousin of artist Rex Whistler and glass engraver Laurence Whistler.
Biography He was born in Jersey in the family of Herbert Frederick Whistler and Blanche Hasler and educated at Victoria College there, then at the London School of Architecture, and Slade School of Art.Reginald Hector Whistler Retrieved on 14 March 2018
He illustrated When Poland Smiled, by Derek du Pré, in 1940, during World War II, with profits going to the Polish Relief Fund.book jacket
He moved to Jamaica in 1948.
His paintings are in the collections of All Souls College, Oxford and Jersey Museum and Art Gallery. Ascension of the Black Christ (1954) is in the First Baptist Church in Toronto, Canada.
Whistler is known for his etched glass panels for the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. and for his illustrations for an edition of The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope. Glass doors panels by Whistler, originally from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, and depicting musical instruments in art deco style, were featured on the BBC One's Antiques Roadshow and were shown to Paul Atterbury in March 2015. Thirteen Pilkington glass panels had been purchased from a market in France by a Liverpool dealer, who expressed an interest in donating some to local museums.
Books about him Alissandra Cummin, Hector Whistler. Publisher: Barbados Museum and Historical Society (1988).
Selected works Sold in auctionsHector Whistler Auction Price Results Retrieved on 14 March 2018 The Forum Rome, 1957, watercolour. Mellons, Tengiers, 1957, oil on canvas. Market, Tangiers, 1957, biro watercolour. Grasse, France, 1957, biro watercolour A scene in the Caribbean, figures on a shore, watercolour. Rome, 1956, pencil and crayon Architectural Studies, 1956. Pencil sketches and colourwash View of a ruined temple in Rome, pencil and pastel drawing.
In museums collectionsHector Whistler, 1905–1978 Retrieved on 14 March 2018 Sir Hugh Springer (1950). All Souls College, University of Oxford Portrait of a Gentleman in Military Dress (1956). Jersey Museum and Art Gallery
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