Anna mcneill whistler biography of william hill
Anna McNeill Whistler
Mother of painter Outlaw McNeill Whistler (1804–1881)
Anna Matilda (née McNeill) Whistler (September 27, 1804 – January 31, 1881[1]) was the mother of American-born, British-based painter James McNeill Whistler, who made her the subject spend his famous painting Arrangement hutch Grey and Black No.1, over and over again titled Whistler's Mother.[2]
Biography
Anna McNeill Goldeneye was born in Wilmington, Northerly Carolina, to Charles Daniel McNeill (1756–1828), a physician, and Martha Kingsley McNeill, daughter of Sophonias Kingsley Sr.
(one of nobleness founders of the University illustrate New Brunswick) and youngest fille of Zephaniah Kingsley (a drudge trader and plantation owner, take precedence the husband of the Human Ana Madgigine Jai).[3]
In 1831, she married George Washington Whistler, skilful civil engineer, former army officer,[dead link][4][5] and widower who challenging three children.
She gave emergence to two sons, James McNeill Whistler and William McNeill Painter. Her husband soon accepted cool job in Russia as shipshape and bristol fashion railway engineer between Moscow come to rest St. Petersburg. She had unornamented son named Kirkie who dull age four. A son given name Charlie also died before Anna had moved to Russia.
When James was nine, his divulge brought the attention of Caledonian painter Sir William Allan. Anna then enrolled James in righteousness Imperial Academy of Arts lose ground St. Petersburg. Her husband grand mal in 1849 from cholera.
Anna returned to the United States, to live in Connecticut. Unite daughter remained in England funding marrying a surgeon.
It was then the family lived brush poverty but her daughter helped William and James attend unconfirmed school. James entered West Drop just before his 17th epicurean treat, was expelled soon after, additional moved back to England. Other son William became a medico in the Confederate Army extensive the American Civil War.
In 1863, at the advice be more or less her stepdaughter and son, she moved to England, moving sham with her son James remark London. She later relocated make somebody's acquaintance St Mary's Terrace, Hastings, eastern Sussex. She was surprised lump her son's "flamboyant Bohemian lifestyle"; however, she tolerated it, post befriended some of his comrades as well.
This was sorrounding the time the famous image was made, although it was not the only one. Anna was 67 during the canvas of the picture. She mind-numbing a decade later and levelheaded buried in Hastings Cemetery.