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

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Georgia Williams

Title: Mrs C.P. Williams
Birthname: Georgia Palmer Babcock
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1837
Date of death: 1910
Category: collector

Identity:

She was the wife of Charles Phelps Williams (1804-1879).

Life:

Her husband commissioned several paintings from Whistler, when he was a student in Paris, in Paris including Copy after Schnetz's 'Les Adieux du consul Boëtus à sa famille' y013, Copy after Ziegler's 'La Vision de St Luc' y015, Copy after Odier's 'Episode de la retraite de Moscou' y017, Copy after a Group in Couture's 'Romains de la décadence' y018.