Whistler Begins Freer Portrait

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Summary

Artist James McNeill Whistler begins three-quarters length portrait of Charles Lang Freer while Freer is on a visit to London, England. The painting is unfinished at the time of the artist's death. It is now in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art.

Subject

  • Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919
  • Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903
  • Freer Gallery of Art

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • In 1906 Charles Lang Freer donates his art collection to the Smithsonian Institution, and it later becomes the Freer Gallery of Art.
  • Lawton, Thomas and Linda Merrill. Freer: A Legacy of Art. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, p. 51-52.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

Spring 1902

Topic

  • Art, American
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Portraits
  • Artists
  • Painting

Place

London, England

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