Maud Mary Waller

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From Wendy; Morning Post Nov 12 1877. Marriages: MONK-WALLER on 8th instant at St Peter's Eaton Square by Rev John Storrs assisted by Rev Thomas Piggott ? of the bride, Richard Powis Monk 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers only surviving son of Richard Powis and MaryAnn Monk of Caenwood House Grove Road Balham to Maud Mary 2nd daughter of Charles Bullen Waller* of Clarence House Clapham. Special licences issued as father had to give permission for marriage as she was a minor.
* Robert John Waller. builder of Eaton Sq died 1892 and let £197,000 - his sons Charles Bullen and Pickford Robert were granted probate

Was the (probable) subject of a painting by Whistler;
(From <http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Wall_MM> )
Maud Mary Waller, 1862-1942
Nationality: English
Date of Birth: 1862.10.09
Place of Birth:
Date of Death: 1942.11.30
Place of Death:
Identity: Maud Mary Monk (1862-1942), née Waller, was the second daughter of Major Charles Bullen Waller and Emma Piggott. She had twelve siblings. Her elder sister Edith Emma became Mrs Marzetti. On 8 November 1887 Maud married Richard Powis Monk. They had five children. Her uncle Pickford Robert Waller was an English designer and collector.
Life: According to Pickford Waller, Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl (YMSM 226) was painted from Maud, whom he described as a beautiful child and a pet of Whistler's. Waller recalled that when the portrait was halfway through it was put aside, but that it was sent to the Grosvenor Gallery for the private view and taken away directly after. Maud also posed for Study of Maud Waller for 'Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl' (M.846).
Bibliography: UK census 1881, from http://www.familysearch.org (accessed 2004); Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980; MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995.

Maud married Richard Powis Monk, son of Richard Powis Monk and Mary Anne Eagle, on 8 Nov 1877 in St.Peter's, Eaton Sq, London. (Richard Powis Monk died on 27 Nov 1946 in St.Sulpice, Switzerland.)