James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1893-1903) "The Doctor - Portrait of My Brother," 1895. Lithograph, sheet 10 x 7 1/2. Edition of about 3,000 published in The Pageant, November, 1896. Unsigned, William Gibbs McNeill Whistler )1846-1900) was two years younger than his brother. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, served i nthe Confederate Army, then moved to London to be near his family. He established a practice and became a surgeon. This image was drawn in Whistler's house in the Rue du Bac when Dr. Whistler came to Paris to confer with Beatrice Whistler's physicians in late 1894.
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