# Kathleen Newton in the Garden [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TISSOT, James]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on panel, 24 x 33 cm ## Commentary This panel shows Kathleen Newton \(nee Kelly\), Tissot's companion and mistress, with members of her immediate family. Muriel, the young girl on the rug is her illegitimate daughter, Violet Newton \(b. 1871\) while the other little girl with the parasol is her niece, Lillian Harvey. Sitting on the wall is her sister, Mary Harvey, who ruffles the hair of Cecil George Newton \(b. 1876\), who may well by Tisssot's illegitimate son. ## Related artworks - [A Widow]() - [Bad News \(detail\)]() - [Bad News \(The Parting\)]() - [Berthe]() - [Portrait of Miss L.L. or Girl in a Red Jacket]() - [Tea]() - [The Newspaper]() - [The Painters and their Wives]() - [The Return from the Boating Trip]() - [Young Lady in a Boat]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()