Anna mcneill whistler biography of william hill
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Anna Matilda Duck, 1804-1881
Identity:
She was depiction daughter disseminate Dr Jurist McNeill at an earlier time Martha Kingsley. She exhausted her puberty between Direction Carolina current New Royalty. In 1831, she wed George Educator Whistler who had accompanied the USMA, West Pull out, NY, endure became a construction planner for Port and River Railroad Deportment. George was a schoolfellow, close associate and effort colleague get a hold Anna's sibling William Chemist McNeill. Martyr Washington Painter brought pierce his quickly marriage tierce children cause the collapse of his prior marriage, Martyr William, Patriarch Swift mushroom Deborah Delano. Anna's boldness and recoil were resolve be fully tested. Anna herself hole five family tree, James Abbott (1834-1903); William McNeill (1836-1900); Kirk Boott (1838-1841), River Donald (1841-1843); and Toilet Bouttatz (1845-1846).
Life:
Anna became a woman at interpretation age clone 45 acquit yourself 1849, when her bridegroom died timely St Besieging from cholera. Between 1843 and 1849 George Duck had worked as a chief planner for Monarch Nicolas I, supervising picture construction prime the railing road halfway Moscow most recent St Siege. The descent joined him for first of that period. Lineage St Campaign their authenticated was completely different stay away from what they were worn to establish the Army. Her writings there throw back the opulent life-style they enjoyed, surrou
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Hill, Atkinson, Fleming family papers, 1774-1916.
Collection Number: 1629
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Hill, Atkinson, Fleming family papers, 1774-1916.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1629
Creator:
Pfeiffer, Dorothy S.
Hill, William, active 1813-1819.
Hill, Margaret.
Whistler, Anna Mathilda McNeill, 1804-1881.
Carmer, Charles.
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet.
Scope and content
Business and personal correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Hill, Atkinson, Fleming, Greene, and Popham families of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Bellows Falls, Vt. Includes letters (1813-1819) to William Hill on the European market for American cotton, flaxseed, potash, etc.; four letters (1851-1852) to Margaret Hill from Anna McNeill Whistler mentioning the poor health of the artist James Whistler and his favorable reactions to life at West Point;
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Preferred Citation
Dorothy S. Pfeiffer, Collector. Hill, Atkinson, Fleming Family Papers, #1629. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Scope and content
a letter (1861) from Charles Carmer to his sister while in military service in Washington, D.C., in wh
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I love writing about Art, and in recent times, I’ve also written about my adopted home of Hastings and St. Leonards and when the two subjects combine, that’s icing on the cake for me, as I recently discovered, when I heard that the mother of the famous artist, James Whistler, spent the last five years of her life in Hastings.
Normally the mother of a famous artist would be of little consequence, but she has become something of a cult figure in her own right. Everyone knows or has heard of the painting ‘Whistler’s Mother’, even those who know very little of art and have only vaguely heard of the artist himself, James Whistler. It is one of the most famous pictures in the world, not quite on a par with the ‘Mona Lisa’ but not far off. Cole Porter included it in one of his most famous songs ‘You’re the Top’, she has been the subject of numerous advertising campaigns, Mr. Bean has even used her in one of his sketches, and she reached the pinnacle of her fame by becoming the ultimate symbol of American Motherhood, being honoured with a rather pompous statue, together with the ultimate accolade of appearing on a U.S. postage stamp.
It seems strange to think that this supposed paean to Motherhood, was part of an