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

 

YMSM 278
Cliffs and Breakers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46391
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 12.4 x 21.6 cm (4 7/8 x 8 1/2")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: Dowdeswell, 1884

Cliffs and Breakers

Cliffs and Breakers dates from between January and March 1884.

Cliffs and Breakers, The Hunterian
Cliffs and Breakers, The Hunterian

It was painted during a three-month visit by Whistler to Cornwall, in south-west England, with his pupils Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) and Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942).

Last updated: 23rd May 2021 by Margaret