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

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YMSM 078
Self-Portrait

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1867
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown
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Self-Portrait

Titles

The only known title is as follows:

  • 'Self-Portrait' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) described it as 'a clever vivacious portrait of himself begun.' 2

Sitter

Carjat & Cie., J. McN. Whistler, 1864/1865, GUL Whistler PH1/95
Carjat & Cie., J. McN. Whistler, 1864/1865, GUL Whistler PH1/95

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 78).

2: Rossetti 1903 [more], p. 222.

Last updated: 30th November 2019 by Margaret