Sir William Nicholson
James McNeill Whistler (from 'Twelve Portraits')
About this artwork
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title:James McNeill Whistler (from 'Twelve Portraits')
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accession number:GMA 1191
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materials:Colour lithograph (after original woodcut) on paper
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date created:Originally published 1899; lithographic edition 1902
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measurements:25.00 x 22.60 cm (paper 26.30 x 24.40 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1949
Sir William Nicholson
Sir William Nicholson
William Nicholson was the son of a wealthy Nottinghamshire industrialist. He trained in London at Herkomer's School alongside the Scottish students, Mabel and James Pryde, in 1888-89. After a year in Paris at the Académie Julian, he and James Pryde, as the 'Beggarstaff Brothers', collaborated on well-known series of posters.…
