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Alexander Arnold Hannay, ca 1858-??

Nationality: Scottish
Date of Birth: 1858 ca
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Identity:

Alexander Arnold Hannay was recorded in 1881 as an articled clerk to a solicitor. He was then living with his father, Alexander Hannay (b. 1822), an independent minister without charge, and mother Mary (b. 1823), at Lineludon House, Sunnyside Road, London.

Life:

Hannay became a solicitor and was a collector. He owned Portrait of Alexander Arnold Hannay (YMSM 473) and The Shop Window (YMSM 377).

Bibliography:

UK census 1881, from http://www.familysearch.org (accessed 2004); Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980.