Whistler painted 'Arrangement in Grey and Black', version no.1 was of his mother, which philosopher and historian was the subject of version no.2?
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle is an 1872–73 oil painting by James McNeill Whistler. It depicts the Scottish social critic, philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle in a composition similar to that of Whistler's "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother", painted in 1871. It is now in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. By the time he sat for Whistler, Thomas Carlyle had lived in Chelsea, London, for 47 years, and was one of its
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle mon, fire away!'" There exist four preparatory studies in oil, and several drawings related to the finished painting. Several sketches in the Freer Gallery of Art suggest that while Whistler based the composition on the painting of his mother, he also considered variations: a chalk drawing shows Carlyle seated at an angle to the wall, a corner of the room shown at left, and without the coat that would be thrown over his lap in the painting. In the painting Whistler reverted to the planar composition of "Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother", and included the