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

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Portrait Sketch of a Lady

Provenance

It may have been among pictures dispersed at the time of Whistler's bankruptcy, as later described by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913):

'the other canvasses, mostly portraits ... more or less destroyed [by Whistler] at the time of his bankruptcy before he handed them over as part of his "assets" to his creditors ... rejected by the auctioneers as unsaleable, and ... bought by a picture dealer for my father.' 1

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

By the terms of C. L. Freer's bequest to the Freer Gallery of Art, the painting cannot be lent.

Notes:

1: Way 1912 [more] , pp. 135-36.

Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret