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

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YMSM 180
Portrait of Sir Henry Cole

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876
Collection: Whereabouts unknown, possibly destroyed
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Portrait of Sir Henry Cole

Technique

Unknown.

Conservation History

Unknown, probably destroyed. Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), the artist's sister-in-law, told the Pennells that it had been burned. 1

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Pennell 1908 [more] , vol. 1, pp. 200-01.

Last updated: 13th November 2019 by Margaret