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

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YMSM 032
Portrait of Luke A. Ionides

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1860
Collection: Private collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 40.6 x 30.4 cm (16 x 12")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: unknown

Portrait of Luke A. Ionides

Portrait of Luke A. Ionides dates from 1860. 1

Portrait of Luke A. Ionides, Private collection
Portrait of Luke A. Ionides, Private collection

According to the sitter, Lucas (Luke) Alexander Ionides (1837-1924) , it was the praise given by the artist George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) to At the Piano [YMSM 024] in 1859 that influenced his father, Alexander Constantine Ionides (1810-1890), to commission this portrait shortly afterwards. 2 Luke Ionides stated that his portrait was 'only completed after a dozen sittings' in 1860. 3

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 32).

2: Ionides 1924 [more] , at pp. 40-41.

3: Ibid.

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