James McNeill Whistler - An Arrangement in Grey and Green: Portrait of John James Cowan 1893
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An Arrangement in Grey and Green:
Portrait of John James Cowan 1893
95x51cm oil/canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery,
National Galleries of Scotland
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From National Galleries of Scotland:
Cowan, an Edinburgh paper manufacturer, sat to Whistler for this portait at least sixty times between 1893 and 1900. Even so, Whistler completed only the head, rubbing down the work on Cowan's grey knickerbocker suit as he was dissatisfied with the result. He did not allow Cowan to have the portrait as it was unfinished.