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Whistler and the Portrait That Made His Name
James Whistler, famed for arrogance and clashes with critics, is remembered for The Artist's Mother. Born 1834 in Lowell, he shifted from Army life to art, studied in France, then England, where his portrait An Arrangement in Grey and Black rose to prominence despite initial Royal Academy rejection.
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Whistler
James Whistler
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Charles Gabriel Gleyre
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John Ruskin
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