Alexander Arnold Hannay

c. 1896

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on wood

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.3 x 13.3 cm (8 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.)
    framed: 45.9 x 37.8 x 7 cm (18 1/16 x 14 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.11.7

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter, Alexander Arnold Hannay, London, until at least 1912. (Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago); sold May 1929 to Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1912

  • Loan Collection of the Works by James McNeill Whistler, National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Gallery), London, 1912, no. 13, as Portrait.

1931

  • Etchings, lithographs, original drawings, and autograph letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903: lent by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Esq, Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931, unnumbered and unillustrated leaflet.

Bibliography

1908

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell. The Life of James McNeill Whistler. 2 vols. London, 1908: 2:172.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 122, repro., as Arnold Hannay.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 258, repro., as Arnold Hannay.

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, and Robin Spencer, with the assistance of Hamish Miles. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler. 2 vols. New Haven, 1980: 1:206, no. 473; 2:color pl. 306.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 381, repro.

1998

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 255-256, repro.

Inscriptions

center left with the artist's butterfly mark

Wikidata ID

Q20190535

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