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

 

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

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait dates from 1867. 1

On 5 February 1867 William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) saw 'a clever vivacious portrait of himself begun' in Whistler's house in Lindsey Row, Chelsea. 2 There is no further record of this.

Notes:

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

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

Last updated: 30th November 2019 by Margaret