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

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Provenance

  • Before 1935: owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) ;
  • 1935: bequeathed to his widow, Katherine Geddes Benedict (1879-1961) , and daughter, Mrs James Douglass Sharpe;
  • 1962: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1962 (lot 12) and bought by Julius H. Weitzner (1896-1986) for Agnew's, London art dealers;
  • 1965: bought on 1 November by a private collector, returned and sold in June 1967 to a Boston collector.
  • 1980: bought from Hirschl and Adler, New York dealers, by Ira Koger (1912-2004) and Nancy Tedder Koger (1915-2005), Florida;
  • 1993: sold in March through Ira Spanierman (n/a), New York, to Thomas Colville (n/a) , New York art dealer;
  • 1993: bought by a private collector.

For further details, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 756).

Exhibitions

No exhibition has been identified in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 9th February 2021 by Margaret