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

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YMSM 355
Portrait of George A. Lucas

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1886
Collection: Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Accession Number: 37.319
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 21.7 x 12.5 cm (8 1/2 x 5")
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Portrait of George A. Lucas

Portrait of George A. Lucas dates from 1886. 1

Portrait of George A. Lucas, Walters Art Gallery
Portrait of George A. Lucas, Walters Art Gallery

George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) recorded two sittings for his portrait on the 22 and 23 August 1886, at his country house at Boissise-la-Bertrand, near Paris. 2

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 355).

2: Label on verso in Lucas's hand, and Lucas diaries, quoted by Randall 1979 [more] , vol. 2, p. 635; Walters Art Gallery website.

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