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

 

Portrait of Dr William McNeill Whistler

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 123), plate 76, as 'Portrait of Dr William McNeill Whistler'.
  • Spink, Nesta R., Harriet K. Stratis, and Martha Tedeschi, The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, (gen. eds, Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi), 2 vols., Chicago, 1998 (C.110-11).

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 103) as 'Portrait of Dr. William McNeill Whistler'.

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'The Whistler Exhibition', Dundee Courier, Dundee, 28 February 1905, p. 4.

Journals 1855-1905

  • British Medical Journal, 10 March 1900, pp. 613-14.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 222 (cat. no. 446).
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 133.
  • Pennell, Joseph, Etchers and Etching: Chapters in the History of the Art Together with Technical Explanations of Modern Artistic Methods, London, 1920, p. 95.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 113.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908 (cat. no. 56).
  • Way, Thomas Robert, and G. R. Dennis, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, 1st edition, London, 1903, p. 40, repr. f.p. 40.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 60-62.

Books, General

  • Shaw, ‎Nancy Rivard, and Mary Black, American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Works by artists born 1816-1847, Detroit, 1997, p. 237.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings in Oil, Water Colour, and Pastel, from the Collection of Mr Burton Mansfield of New Haven, Conn., Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1911 (cat. no. 71).
  • Sweet, Frederick A., James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968 (cat. no. 18), as 'Portrait of Dr. William McNeill Whistler (Portrait of My Brother)'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 73, no. 3, May-June 1979, pp. 10-11, repr.

Newspapers 1906-Present

  • None.

Websites

  • Art Institute of Chicago website at http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111478 (acc. 2019).
  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website.
  • Strother, Stephanie L., 'Cat. 12 Portrait of Dr. William McNeill Whistler, 1871/73: Curatorial Entry,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL.
  • Muir, Kimberley, 'Cat. 12 Portrait of Dr. William McNeill Whistler, 1871/73: Technical Summary,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, URL.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 26) 'Portrait of Dr. William McNeill Whistler'.

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 13th December 2020 by Margaret