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

 

M.0840
Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.154
Medium: pencil, pen, brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 5 9/16-5 11/16 x 5-5 3/16" (141-144 x 126-132 mm)
Signature: none, although a cartouche for the signature is indicated to right of the figure
Inscription: 'J. A. M. W' in unknown hand.

Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Provenance

  • 1881 or later: acquired by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) ;
  • 1905: bought from Way by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit, in June 1905;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 840).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret