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Whistler with Palette on the Embankment

Walter Greaves
Painting
1874
Owner: Rosenbach Museum & Library

Lady in Gray

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
c. 1883
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sketch for the Portrait of Connie Gilchrist with a Skipping Rope

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
c. 1879
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

Harmony in Violet and Amber

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
c. 1884
Owner: Freer Gallery of Art

Study in Grey for the Portrait of F.R. Leyland

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
1870-73

Harmony in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Mrs. Louise Jopling

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
1877
Owner: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
c. 1872-74
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Study for 'Portrait of Miss May Alexander'

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
1873
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Joseph Edgar Boehm
Sculpture
1875
Owner: Toledo Museum of Art

Study of a Woman (Maude Franklin)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
1871-73
Owner: National Gallery of Art
Study for Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 2: Thomas Carlyle

Study for Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 2: Thomas Carlyle

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
1872-73
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Maud Franklin

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
1872-74
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Kate Munro

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
c. 1875-85
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
J. A. M. Whistler

J. A. M. Whistler

Walter Greaves
Painting
1870
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait Sketch of Frederick R. Leyland

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
c. 1871-73
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thomas Carlyle

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
1872
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Portrait of Rosa Corder

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
c. 1876-78
Owner: Yale Center for British Art

Etching of Whistler

Thomas Percy
Print
1874
Owner: Freer Gallery of Art

Portrait of Whistler

Walter Greaves
Drawing
c. 1877
Owner: UNLOCATED

Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
1876-1878
Owner: The Frick Collection

Self-portrait

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
c. 1872
Owner: Private collection

James McNeill Whistler

Walter Greaves
Painting
1871
Owner: Charles Goldsmith, Inc.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Sir Leslie Mathew Ward
Painting
1878
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Whistler at his Easel

Walter Greaves
Painting
1876
Owner: Private Collection

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