The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0040
Landscapes and portraits
Date
Landscapes and portraits date from Whistler's schooldays in Pomfret, Connecticut, between 1849 and 1851.
They are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 40).
Images
Landscapes and portraits, whereabouts unknown
Subject
Description
According to the Pennells, `he is said to have been always drawing: at times caricatures and comic subjects, at others, illustrations to the books he had read, or portraits of his friends, or the Pomfret landscape.' 1
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
Unknown.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 40) as 'Landscapes and portraits'.
Books on Whistler
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, p. 27.
Notes:
1: Pennell 1908 [more], vol. 1, p. 27.