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Trouville Painting ID:: 38980
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James Mcneill Whistler Trouville mk142
1865
Oil on canvas
49.5x75.5cm
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Brown and Silver Old Battersea Bridge Painting ID:: 39296
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James Mcneill Whistler Brown and Silver Old Battersea Bridge mk146
1859-63
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The Little White Girl Symphony in White no.2 1864 Painting ID:: 39316
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James Mcneill Whistler The Little White Girl Symphony in White no.2 1864 mk147
Tate Gallery,London
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Whistler-s passion for all things oriental is presented here in his the princess from the Land of Porcelain Painting ID:: 44779
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James Mcneill Whistler Whistler-s passion for all things oriental is presented here in his the princess from the Land of Porcelain mk177
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Self-Portrait Painting ID:: 44782
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James Mcneill Whistler Self-Portrait mk177
Arrangerment in Grap
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James Mcneill Whistler
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American Painter and Printmaker, 1834-1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler's deft brushwork and mighty ego made him one of London's best-known painters in the second half of the 1800s. Born in Massachusetts, Whistler spent most of his adult life in England and France, in an era when an American artist in Europe was something of a rarity. He specialized in landscapes and (especially later in his career) portraits; stylistically he is often linked with Claude Monet and August Renoir, though he was not exactly part of the Impressionist movement. His etchings also are highly regarded. Witty, cranky and a bit of a devil, Whistler was a regular gadabout in British society. He had a famous long-running feud with the playwright Oscar Wilde, each of them trying to outwit the other with cutting public remarks. Some critics of the era considered Whistler's work to be smudgy and too radical; after viewing Whistler's 1875 study of fireworks over the Thames, Nocturne in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket, John Ruskin wrote: "I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler successfully sued Ruskin for libel but was awarded only a farthing in damages, |
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