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James Abbott McNeill
Whistler
American painter, printmaker & etcher
born July 11 1834- died July 17 1903

Born in: Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts, United States)
Died in: London (Greater London, England)

Also known as:
James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, James Abbott McNeil Whistler

Nationality:
American

Student of:
Charles Gleyre (1808-1874)

Teacher of:
Clifford Isaac Addams (1876-1942), Blendon Reed Campbell (1872-1912), Alson Skinner Clark (1876-1949), Earl Stetson Crawford (1877-1934), Rinaldo Cuneo (1877-1939), Jozef Czajkowski (Józef Czajkowski) (1872-1947), David Ericson (1869-1946), Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939), Lillian Matilde Genth (1876-1953), Walter Greaves (1846-1930), Gwen John (1876-1939), Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Mortimer Menpes (1855-1939), Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871-1955), Lawton Silas Parker (1868-1954), Harper Pennington (1853-1920), Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), Konstantin Somov (1869-1955), Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill (1874-1929)

Husband of:

Assisted by:

Friend of:
Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), E. A. Walton (1860-1922)

Grandfather of:

Uncle of:

Painted from:

President of:
Royal Society of British Artists

Harmony in Flesh Colour and Red

1869
Oil on canvas
35.56 x 38.735 cm
(14" x 15¼")
Public collection

Added: 2005-07-11
Harmony in Flesh Colour and Red
Nocturne: Blue and Gold ­ Old Battersea Bridge

1872-1877
Oil on canvas
130.175 x 173.6852 cm
(4' 3¼" x 5' 8.38")
Tate Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

Added: 2005-07-11
Nocturne: Blue and Gold ­ Old Battersea Bridge
Nocturne: Blue and Gold ­ Southampton Water

1872
Oil on canvas
76.3 x 50.5 cm
(30.04" x 19.88")
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)

Added: 2005-07-11
Nocturne: Blue and Gold ­ Southampton Water
Nocturne in Blue and Silver: The Lagoon, Venice

1879-1880
Oil on canvas
66 x 51 cm
(25.98" x 20.08")
Public collection

Added: 2005-07-11
Nocturne in Blue and Silver: The Lagoon, Venice
Nocturne: Blue and Gold ­ St Mark's, Venice

1879-1880
Oil on canvas
59.7 x 44.5 cm
(23½" x 17.52")
National Museum of Wales (Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom)

Added: 2005-07-11
Nocturne: Blue and Gold ­ St Mark's, Venice
Nocturne­ Blue and Silver

1872
Oil on canvas
74.295 x 50.165 cm
(29¼" x 19¾")
Tate Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

Added: 2005-07-11
Nocturne­ Blue and Silver
Nocturne: Blue and Silver ­ Chelsea

1871
Oil on wood
60.64 x 50.17 cm
(23.87" x 19¾")
Tate Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

Added: 2005-07-11
Nocturne: Blue and Silver ­ Chelsea
Nocturne: Grey and Gold

1871-1872
Oil on canvas
62.23 x 46.99 cm
(24½" x 18½")
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Added: 2005-07-11
Note in Red: The Siesta

1873-1875
Oil on canvas
51.4 x 31.1 cm
(20.24" x 12.24")
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)

Added: 2005-07-11
Note in Red: The Siesta
Portrait of George W. Vanderbilt

1897-1903
Oil on canvas
91.1 x 208.6 cm
(35.87" x 6' 10.13")
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States)

Added: 2005-07-11
Portrait of George W. Vanderbilt