Identity:

James Anderson Rose was JW's solicitor.

Life:

Rose was a solicitor, as well as a major print collector, confidant, and friend of artists, including JWand Rossetti. He owned The Sleeper (M.309) and Sleeping woman (M.310), and had a magnificent collection of JW's etchings. See Rose, James Anderson, Catalogue of a Collection of Etched and Engraved Works by the Best Masters Formed ... by James Anderson Rose ... Including the Most Complete Series of Mr. Whistler's Works Yet Formed ... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, sale catalogue, London, 1876; Rose, James Anderson, Catalogue of the Remaining Portion of the Collection of Etched and Engraved Portraits by the Best Masters formed by James Anderson Rose Esq. ... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge ... 11th day of May, 1887, sale catalogue, London, 1887.

His offices were at 11 Salisbury Street, Strand; he lived at Wandsworth Common.

Bibliography:

Rose, James Anderson, Catalogue of a Collection of Etched and Engraved Works by the Best Masters Formed ... by James Anderson Rose ... Including the Most Complete Series of Mr. Whistler's Works Yet Formed ... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, sale catalogue, London, 1876; Rose, James Anderson, Catalogue of the Remaining Portion of the Collection of Etched and Engraved Portraits by the Best Masters formed by James Anderson Rose Esq. ... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge ... 11th day of May, 1887, sale catalogue, London, 1887;Merrill, Linda, A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in 'Whistler v. Ruskin', Washington and London, 1992; Macleod, Dianne Sachko, Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 469-470.