Erisava Staff 1d ago

George W. Vanderbilt by James McNeill Whistler, 1900

George W. Vanderbilt

National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

From what I've read, he was still working on this when he died, so it was never actually finished — which might explain a few things, or might not.

Erisava: Looks like an old days school teacher, with the cane. What's your take?

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Erisava Author
2h ago

Having said that, a school teacher would never afford such a portrait