Chelsea in Ice is an 1864 landscape painting by the American artist James MacNeill Whistler. A cityscape, it depicts a view of the River Thames at Chelsea. A single steamer heads through the ice-filled river. Both the title and the atmospheric subject is reminiscent of his 1860 painting The Thames in Ice. The presence of industrial buildings on the Battersea side are similar to those which appear in his Japonisme-styled The Balcony around the same time.Sutherland p.133
Stylistically it shows The painting is today in the collection of the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Mainehttps://colby-museum-frontend.pages.dev/objects/6420 having been acquired for 2.6 million dollars in 2000.Belzer p.268
See also List of paintings by James McNeill Whistler
References
Bibliography Belzer, Allison Scardino. The Ashurst Sisters: Nurturing Rebellion Across the Nineteenth Century. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. Jacobi, Carol (ed.) James McNeill Whistler. Tate Publishing, 2026. Sutherland, Daniel E. Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake. Yale University Press, 2014.