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

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Alexander Arnold Hannay

Nationality: Scottish
Date of birth: 1858
Place of birth: Dundee
Date of death: 1927
Place of death: Hampstead, London
Category: collector

Identity:

Alexander Arnold Hannay was recorded in 1881 as an articled clerk to a solicitor. He was then living with his father, Alexander Hannay (b. 1822), an independent minister without charge, and mother Mary Agnes nee Hawson (b. 1823), at Lineludon House, Sunnyside Road, London. In the 1891 census A.A. Hannay, his wife Alice Mary, daughter Margaret and son Henry were living in Finchley, Middlesex.

Life:

Hannay became a solicitor and was a collector. He owned Portrait of Alexander Arnold Hannay y473 and The Shop Window y377.

Bibliography:

UK census 1881, 1891, Ancestry.com.

Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .