Joseph Whistler Revillon was born in 1886 and was the great-nephew of the painter James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). He spent his early life as a civil engineer in Russia. When he retired to Suffolk, England, in the 1940s he began work on a catalogue of Whistler's oil painters amassing in addition a considerable body of material relating to the Whistler family. He bequeathed the whole of his collection to the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where after another 25 years of work his catalogued he began was published.
Whistler and Further Family (Glasgow University Library, 1980)
From the guide to the Papers of Joseph Whistler Revillon, 1886-1955, civil engineer and great-nephew of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), 1910, 1947-1948, (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department)
