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Portrait study of a man Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (painter)
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Title/s	Portrait study of a man
Maker/s	Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (painter) [ULAN info: American artist, 1834-1903]
Category	painting
Name	painting
School/Style	American
Technique Description	oil on panel
Dimensions	height: 16.8 cm width: 10.2 cm
Date	circa 1890
Provenance	bequeathed: Milner-White, Eric 1970 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) with the Redfern Gallery, London; bt. from them by Clifford Hall, 1940 or 1941; anon. sale (=Clifford Hall), Sotheby's. 22 June 1955 (139), bt. in; bt. from him by Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, who sold it to E. Milner-White 1956 Beqeathed 1963.
Inscriptions/Marks	label Position: verso, panel Method: Content: Roland, Browse & Delbanco supporting information Position: verso, frame Method: printed Content: no. 139, "Portrait study of a man", as exh. Exhibition of Whistleriana, 96 Cheyne Walk, 1948, no. 63
Documentation	Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 280-281] Young, Andrew McLaren (1980) The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven: Yale University Press [page: 181] [comments: no. 405, Vol. II, pl. 252]
Accession Number	PD.29-1970 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 4023; Input Date: 2000-04-14 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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Portrait study of a man

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (painter)