Whistler, James

A nineteenth-century American artist who spent most of his career in England and France . He is best known for the painting popularly called .

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James Whistler, in a painter's smock, stood at one end of the room at work.

James Whistler is of American extraction, and studied painting in France.

James Whistler was always kind to young artists and liked to have them sit by him while he worked.

Well, it did not look for a while as if there was any more good luck in the world for James Whistler.

This smacks of the inverted wisdom of the late James Whistler.

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