UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler

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William Thompson Walters, 1820-1894

Nationality: American
Date of Birth: 1820
Place of Birth: Liverpool, PA
Date of Death: 1894
Place of Death:

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.