Part of a 14-panel panorama etching of 17th-century buildings in St. Petersburg, Russia

The Whistlers’ Lives in the United States

Image 42

View of New York from Brooklyn Heights, where Anna Whistler lived from the age of ten

New York from Brooklyn Heights, 1837 (Museum of the City of New York)
John William Hill (1812–1879), and Lewis Peter Clover (b. 1770). New York from Brooklyn Heights. 1837. Mezzotint. J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York (MNY15659).

Image 43

Kirk Boott, who was responsible for bringing Major Whistler to Lowell, Massachusetts, to be superintendent of the locks and canals that brought power to the city’s cotton-spinning mills

Kirk Boott, circa 1835, by Chester Harding (City of Lowell, MA)
Chester Harding (1792–1866). Kirk Boott (detail). c. 1835. Oil on canvas. 97 x 60 in. (247 x 152.4 cm). City of Lowell, MA. [full resolution image]

Image 44

Henry Washington Lee, the Whistler family’s pastor when they lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1838 to 1842

Photograph of Henry Washington Lee, Bishop of Iowa, 1863, by J. Gurney and Sons
J. Gurney & Son, photographers. Henry Washington Lee, Bishop of Iowa. 1863. (The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; Photographed from Life during the Triennial Convention by J. Gurney & Son [New York: T. Porter Shaw, 1863], no pagination) [full resolution image]

Image 45

Lydia Mason (Morton) Lee, wife of Rev. Henry Washington Lee and close friend of Anna Whistler

Photograph of Lydia Mason Morton Lee, circa 1880, in a striped dress, with a ruffled cap
Lydia Mason (Morton) Lee in about 1880; courtesy of Susan Alland, great-great-granddaughter of Henry Washington and Lydia (Morton) Lee. [full resolution image]

Image 46

The destruction of the Lexington in 1840

Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington, 1840, by Nathaniel Currier (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC )
Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888). Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Eve, Jany 13th, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished. 1840. Hand-colored lithograph after a drawing by William Keesey Hewitt (1817–1893). Published in The New York Sun. 8 × 12 in. (21.4 × 30.5 cm). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC (LC-DIG-pga-06100).

Image 47

Oroondates Mauran, father of Josephine Mauran, Deborah Whistler’s classmate in New York in 1843

Oroondates Mauran
Stockbridge and Mauran, Mauran Family. [full resolution image]

Image 48

Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, husband of Josephine (Mauran) Gibbs

Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
The Progress of Science,” Popular Science Monthly 82, no, 42 (1913), p. 617.

Image 49

Trinity Church in New York, which held its reopening in 1846

Trinity Church, 1846 (Museum of the City of New York)
John Forsyth and E.W. Mimee. Trinity Church. 1846. Lithograph. 15½ x 22 in. J. Clarence Davies Collection, Museum of the City of New York (MNY12751).

Image 50

James K. Polk, president of the United States from 4 March 1845 to 4 March 1849

President James Knox Polk, 1846 (National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC)
George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894). James Knox Polk. 1846. Oil on canvas. 30½ x 25½ in. (77.5 × 64.8 cm). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (NPG.2019.14); gift of the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Image 51

General Zachary Taylor, commanding general of the U.S. Army in the War with Mexico

President Zachary Taylor, 1848 (National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC)
James Reid Lambdin (1807–1889). Zachary Taylor. 1848. Oil on canvas. 30¼ × 25 in. (76.8 × 63.8 cm). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (NPG.76.7); gift of Barry Bingham, Sr.

Image 52

General-in-chief of the Army, Winfield Scott, whom Nicholas I reminded Major Whistler of in appearance

General Winfield Scott, circa 1855 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York )
Robert Walter Weir (1803–1889). General Winfield Scott. c. 1855. Oil on canvas. 33¾ x 26 in. (85.7 x 68.3 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 10.54); gift of the heirs of William B. Isham, 1910.

Image 53

Anna Margaretta (Kunze) Lorillard’s death in New York in November 1846 was reported to Anna Whistler.

Anna Margaretta Kunze, in a black dress with white lace bonnet and shawl, circa 1910
Anna Margaretta Kunze. Photograph (1910) of a portrait in the possession of Hermann H. Cammann. (Henrietta Meier Oakley and J.C. Schwab, Muhlenberg Album [New Haven, CT: Tuttle Press, 1910], no pagination) [full resolution image]

Image 54

Agnes (Stevenson) Maxwell, mother of John Stevenson Maxwell

Portrait of Mrs. Hugh Maxwell, in a black dress with a white cap with tails, and curls about her face, 1867, in ornate oval frame (New York Historical Society)
Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815–1897). Mrs. Hugh Maxwell (c 1790–1866). 1867. Oil on canvas. 30 3/4 x 24 in. (76.8 x 63.2 cm). New-York Historical Society (ID 1969.53); bequest of Virginia Livingston Hunt.

Image 55

Hugh Maxwell, father of John Stevenson Maxwell

Hugh Maxwell, 1844 (New York Historical Society)
Anton H. Wenzler. Hugh Maxwell (1787 –1873). 1844. Oil on canvas. 30 ½ x 25 in. (77.5 x 63.5 cm).New-York Historical Society (ID 1964.35); gift of Wellwood Hugh Maxwell.

Image 55b

Caroline Ross Maxwell, daughter of John Stevenson Maxwell and Caroline Ely Mulligan

Woman in Victorian wedding dress with full bustle and train
“Victorian wedding gown by Worth was the choice of Mrs. William Conselyea Traphagen shown here in her bridal photograph in 1874” (“Inside Story of the Bride with the Bustle,” Fashion Digest [Fall–Winter 1959–1960]: p. 29).

Image 56

James Bicheno Francis, a friend and work associate of Major Whistler from Lowell, Massachusetts, who did not appreciate James Whistler as an artist

James Bicheno Francis, 1878 (Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA)
Richard B. Staigg (1817–1881). Portrait of James Bicheno Francis. 1878. Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA. [full resolution image]

Image 57

Parthenia Pardoe (Babcock) Babcock, Anna Whistler’s friend in Stonington, Connecticut, whose baby daughter died in 1846

Photograph of Parthenia Pardoe Babcock Babcock, photocopy of page with handwriting beneath: Parthenia Babcock, sister of Sam DB - lived to be over 90 Married Wm. R. Babcock
Photocopy of a photograph provided to E. Harden. [full resolution image]

Image 58

The house in Florida belonging to Zephaniah Kingsley, the brother of Anna Whistler’s mother, Martha (Kingsley) McNeill

Zephaniah Kingsley's house in Florida
Schafer, Zephaniah Kingsley, p. 159. [full resolution image]

Image 59

The house in Florida belonging to Anna Jai Kingsley, the mother of some of the children of Zephaniah Kingsley

Anna Jai Kingsley's house in Florida
Schafer, Zephaniah Kingsley, p. 160. [full resolution image]

Image 60

Map of Zephaniah Kingsley’s lands in Florida

A map of Zephaniah Kingsley's lands in Florida
Schafer, Zephaniah Kingsley, p. 157. [full resolution image]