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

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William Thompson Walters

Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1820
Place of birth: Liverpool, PA
Date of death: 1894
Category: collector

Identity:

William Thompson Walters was a civil engineer, art collector and patron.

Life:

He was a friend of George A. Lucas in Paris. Lucas gave the Portrait of George A. Lucas y355 to William Walters' son Henry.

Bibliography:

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