Alexander Arnold Hannay, c. 1896

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

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.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.11.7

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

center left with the artist's butterfly mark

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

Hannay, Alexander Arnold
Johnson Gallery, Chester H.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.

1980: 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.