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

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Guy John Fenton Knowles

Nationality: British
Date of birth: 1879
Date of death: 1959
Category: collector, print

Identity:

Guy John Fenton Knowles was a print collector.

Life:

A keen mountaineer, he joined a British expedition to K2 under the direction of O. Eckenstein, and co-director Crowley in 1902. This did not go too well, and ended with his threatening Crowley with a pistol.

He was a friend of Rodin, and bequeathed his Rodin sculpture Brother and Sister, as well as his Whistler etchings, to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Bibliography:

http://www.desnivel.es/encyclopedia/textos/entrada.xml?ID=1020