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

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Arthur Kay

Nationality: Scottish
Date of birth: 1860
Date of death: 1939
Category: collector

Identity:

Arthur Kay was a collector and businessman. He married the sister of the artist D. Y. Cameron.

Life:

He was a Glasgow collector, especially of Dutch art. A business partner of the textile manufacturer and collector T. G. Arthur, he may have known Whistler in the mid 1890s.

Bibliography:

Williams, Julia Lloyd, Smout, T. C. et al, Dutch Art and Scotland : A Reflection of Taste, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1992.