Freer Meets Whistler in London
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PrintCharles Lang Freer meets artist James McNeill Whistler for the first time at Whistler's house on Tite Street in London, England. Freer asks Whistler to provide him with early impressions of his etchings. After this meeting, Freer becomes a friend of Whistler and a major collector of his work.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
March 1890
London, England