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

 

M.0997
Gold and Brown: The Guitar Player

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46096
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream paper laid down on card
Size: 9 x 5 9/16" (231 x 141 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: '(12) / o / n.7' in unknown hands

Gold and Brown: The Guitar Player

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Gold and Brown: The Guitar Player, The Hunterian
Gold and Brown: The Guitar Player, The Hunterian

Possibly the Spanish painter and guitarist Dario de Regoyos y Valdes (1857-1913), who probably met met Whistler at the first exhibition of Les XX in Brussels in 1884: both men exhibited with the society.

Last updated: 5th June 2021 by Margaret