UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler

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Charles Whymper, 1853-1941

Nationality: English
Date of Birth: 1853
Place of Birth: Lambeth
Date of Death: 1941
Place of Death:

Identity:

Charles Whymper was a painter and illustrator of sporting and natural history subjects.

Life:

He came from a family of artists and engravers. He may have known JW in the mid-seventies, when his name appears in an address book (#12714).

Bibliography:

Wood, Christopher, Victorian Painters, 2 vols., 3rd edtn., revised, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995.