Henry Walters
Date of birth: 1841
Date of death: 1931
Category: collector
Identity:
Henry Walters was a collector, a friend of G. A. Lucas, and founder of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
Life:
Lucas gave Portrait of George A. Lucas y355 to Walters in 1908. In 1931 Waslters bequeathed his collection (begun by his father William T. Walters during the 1850s) and his gallery, completed in 1909, to the city of Baltimore.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 ; Johnston, William R., William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors, Baltimore, 1999; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 ; http://www.thewalters.org (accessed 12 July 2004).
