Identity:
William Thompson Walters was a civil engineer, art collector and patron.
Life:
He was a friend of George A. Lucas in Paris. Lucas gave the Portrait of George A. Lucas (YMSM 355) to William Walters' son Henry.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980.