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

 

YMSM 405
Portrait Study of a Man

Artist: Formerly attributed to James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1900
Collection: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Accession Number: PD.29-1970
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 16.8 x 10.2 cm (6 5/8 x 4")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: Simple flat Whistler

Portrait Study of a Man

Provenance

  • 1940 or 1941: bought from the Redfern Gallery, London, by Clifford Hall (1869-1957) , London;
  • 1948: auctioned at Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1955 (lot 139), bought in by Chandler at £30;
  • 1956: sold by Hall to Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London dealers, and by them to Eric Milner-White (1884-1963) , Dean of York;
  • 1963: bequeathed by him to the Fitzwilliam Museum;
  • 1970: received by the Museum.

The early provenance is unknown.

A label on the back of the panel gives supporting information from Roland, Browse & Delbanco; the other information is in gallery records. 1

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Notes:

1: See also letters from Clifford Hall to J. W. Revillon, 7 February 1946, and n.d., GUL WPP file.

Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret