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

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The assassination of the Duke of Buckingham

Provenance

  • 1853: given by Whistler to a fellow West Point cadet, Alexander Stewart Webb (1835-1911) .
  • Date unknown: Arthur H. Hahlo & Co., New York art dealers.
  • 2013: 'Property of a Greenwich Village Collector', sold at auction, Doyle’s sale of European, American, Modern & Contemporary Art, New York, 8 May 2013 (lot 253) as ‘A Confrontation’, and bought by Thomas Colville Fine Arts, New York.

Exhibitions

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

Last updated: 6th February 2019 by Margaret