Identity:
John Grove was the landlord of the Royal Lion Hotel in Lyme Regis, where JW and his wife stayed in 1895.
Life:
John Grove posed to JW for a lithographic portrait (John Grove (C.126)).
Bibliography:
Spink, Nesta R., The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, gen. eds Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi, Chicago, 1998.