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Anna McNeill Whistler
Anna Matilda (née McNeill) Whistler (September 27, 1804 – January 3, 1881) was the mother of American-born, British-based painter, James McNeill Whistler, who made her the subject of his famous painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1", often titled "Whistler's Mother".
Biography.
Anna McNeill Whistler was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Charles Daniel McNeill (1756–1828), a physician, and Martha Kingsley McNeill, daughter of Zephaniah
William McNeill Whistler
Dr. William McNeill Whistler (July 22, 1836 – February 27, 1900) was an American Confederate soldier and surgeon. He was the younger brother of artist James McNeill Whistler, who painted "Whistler's Mother".
Life.
Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the second son of George Washington Whistler and Anna McNeill Whistler. His father was a former soldier who abandoned a military career to become a civil engineer specialising in railroad construction. In 1842 Czar Nicholas I hired him to build