Joanna Heffernan (abt. 1839 - 1886)

Biography

Joanna Heffernan is Notable.

Joanna Heffernan baptised 8 July 1839 in the Roman catholic church of St Michael, third child among six daughters and one son of John Christopher Heffernan and his first wife Catherine Hannan. ^{[1][2] [3]}

Joanna Hiffernan was an Irish artists' model and muse who was romantically linked with American painterJames Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave Courbet. In addition to being an artists' model, Hiffernan herself also drew and painted.

Joanna adopted Charles James Whistler Hanson son of James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Louisa Fanny Hanson who was born in 1870. He came to live with her at 5 Thistle Grove. Hiffernan continued to look after him as late as 1880 when Whistler was away in Venice with Maud Franklin, his current mistress.^[4]

Joanna died on 3 July 1886 at 2 Millman Street, Holborn. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ surname written Heffernan in baptism record St. Michael's, Limerick city | Microfilm 02416 / 03 https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000635028?locale=en#page/15/mode/1up
2. ↑ Hiffernan, Joanna ('Jo') Contributed by White, Lawrence William https://www.dib.ie/biography/hiffernan-joanna-jo-a9605
3. ↑ St Michael’s, Limerick city: marriages, Jan. 1835 (parents’ record), microfilm 02416/01, p. 55; baptisms, July 1839, microfilm 02416/03,
4. ↑ The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/
5. ↑ "England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2JBM-SPH : 31 December 2014), Johanna Hefferman, 1886; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Holborn, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

See also:

• "The Whistler journal" by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, and J. Pennell, publ 1921 p 161 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924015708740#page/n290/mode/1up

• "The life of James McNeill Whistler" by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, and Joseph Pennell, publ 1911 p 67 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924008742714#page/n124/mode/1up/search/joanna