Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

YMSM 108
Portrait of Master Frederick Leyland

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: unknown
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Portrait of Master Frederick Leyland

Provenance

Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892) commissioned paintings of all his four children, but ‘The son, after three sittings, refused to sit again’. 1

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Notes:

1: Pennell 1908 [more] vol. 1, pp. 175-76.

Last updated: 3rd December 2019 by Margaret