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

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Portrait of a child

Provenance

  • 1951: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 27 June 1951, as 'Head and shoulders of a small girl', and bought for £75.0.0 by Denys Sutton (1917-1991) , London;
  • 1991: passed by descent to a private collection;
  • 2013: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 2013 (lot 60) for $341,000;
  • 2013: bought by Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) and Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) ;
  • 2013: given to Colby College Museum of Art, the Lunder Collection.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

  • It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 29th May 2021 by Margaret