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Anna McNeill Whistler. Anna Matilda (née McNeill) Whistler (September 27, 1804 – January 31, 1881 [1]) was the mother of American-born, British-based painter James McNeill Whistler, who made her the subject of his famous painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, often titled Whistler's Mother. [2]
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- Born of Two Worlds
- On The Move
- In London, A Masterpiece Emerges
Anna Matilda (McNeill) Whistler (1804–1881) may have been a quiet, diminutive woman, but she was a mighty force in the lives of those around her. She reared a renowned artist, an acclaimed physician, a prosperous businessman and a daughter who married into the English upper class. A shrewd observer of the world, Anna encountered and interacted with...
But there were complicated layers to her character and upbringing. In a way, Anna was a daughter of the slave-holding South. She spent the first years of her life in North Carolina, where she was raised by a physician father and a beautiful, cultured mother. Both a plantation-owning uncle and Anna’s brother had children with black women. In the cas...
Thirteen years into her marriage, and after living in another four homes in three states, she packed up her family and moved to St Petersburg, Russia. Her world-renowned engineer husband had been hired by Czar Nicholas I to build a railroad from St Petersburg to Moscow. Six years later, when her husband died of cholera, Anna returned to America to ...
Quickly adapting to yet another upheaval, Anna directed her artist son’s London household, where she lived for most of the next 11 years. It was during this time that, in 1871, she sat for her famous portrait. Whistler had experienced one of his periodic bouts of self-doubt in the last half of the 1860s. Reconsidering the purpose of art, he experim...
Anna Mathilda McNeill Whistler, was the mother of the artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler and the subject of her son's painting popularly known as Whistler's Mother, though actually titled Arrangement in Grey and Black. This painting, which hangs in the Musée d'Orsay and was reproduced on the 1934 Mother's Day U.S. postal stamp, as well as in ...
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Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler, who lived with her son, in London, from 1864 to 1875, sits in profile with an air of infinite patience, gazing steadily at, apparently, nothing. The work is on loan ...
The subject of the painting is Whistler's mother, Anna McNeill Whistler. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches (1,443 mm × 1,624 mm), displayed in a frame of Whistler's own design. It is held by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, having been bought by the French state in 1891. It is one of the most famous works by an American artist outside the ...
May 13, 2015 · When Anna Whistler passed away in 1881, her son added his mother’s maiden name, McNeill, to his own. Present-day audiences may find Anna Whistler daunting, even cold. It is hard to deny that the artist’s choices of scale, color, and composition make “Whistler’s Mother” come across as an icon that is perhaps more grand than warm.
About Whistler’s Mother. Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler, c. 1850–59. Anna Matilda McNeill was born in 1804 in Wilmington, North Carolina. She married railroad engineer George Washington Whistler, a friend of her brother, in 1831. Mr. Whistler’s first wife had passed away, leaving three children. Anna and George had five more children ...
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