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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

Symphony in White no.2: The Little White Girl

1864
Oil on canvas
51 x 76 cm
(20.08" x 29.92")
Tate Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

Added: 2001-12-05
Symphony in White no.2: The Little White Girl
Symphony in White no.3

1865-1867
Oil on canvas
76.5 x 52 cm
(30.12" x 20.47")
University of Birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Added: 2001-12-05
Symphony in White no.3
The Little Rose of Lyme Regis

1895
Oil on canvas
31.1 x 51.4 cm
(12.24" x 20.24")
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, United States)

Added: 2001-12-05
Head of a Young Woman

c1890
Oil on canvas mounted on wood
37.8 x 45.8 cm
(14.88" x 18.03")
Smithsonian American Art Museum (United States)

Added: 2004-02-21
Head of a Young Woman
Valparaiso Harbor

1866
Oil on canvas
51.1 x 76.6 cm
(20.12" x 30.16")
Smithsonian American Art Museum (United States)

Added: 2004-02-21
Valparaiso Harbor
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay

1866
Oil on canvas
50.1 x 75.6 cm
(19.72" x 29.76")
Freer Gallery of Art (Washington DC, United States)

Added: 2001-12-05
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay
The Morning after the Revolution, Valparaiso

1866
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 76 cm
(25" x 29.92")
Hunterian Art Gallery (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Added: 2001-12-05
The Morning after the Revolution, Valparaiso
Nocturne: Trafalgar Square ­ Chelsea Snow

c1875-c1877
Oil on canvas
62.5 x 47.2 cm
(24.61" x 18.58")
Freer Gallery of Art (Washington DC, United States)

Added: 2001-12-05
Nocturne: Trafalgar Square ­ Chelsea Snow
The Last of old Westminster

1862
Oil on canvas
77.5 x 61 cm
(30.51" x 24.02")
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, United States)

Added: 2001-12-05
The Last of old Westminster
The Coast of Brittany

1861
Oil on canvas
115.8 x 87.3 cm
(3' 9.59" x 34.37")
Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Connecticut, United States)

Added: 2001-12-05
The Coast of Brittany