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

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Portrait of Mrs Eliza Winstanley

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Eliza Isabella Winstanley (1788-1857) , the daughter of Alicia Clunie and Daniel McNeill. She was the half-sister of Whistler's mother Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881). She was born in the Bahamas and died in Preston. She married first, Robert Wellwood, Edinburgh, and secondly, John Winstanley: they lived in Preston, Lancashire. She never had any children.

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