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

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Eleanor Ruth McNay

Birthname: Eleanor Ruth McNay
Alias: Nora
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 16 January 1868
Place of birth: South Norwood, Surrey
Date of death: 1886
Place of death: Croydon, Surrey
Category: sitter

Identity:

She was the daughter of Mary Isabella and Thomas Fothergill McNay of Audley Villa, Selhurst Road, South Norwoo.d

Life:

She may have been sketched (Mrs or Miss McNay m0868) and painted (Portrait of Miss Nora McNay y348) by Whistler in the early 1880s.

Bibliography:

MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 .