Aims and ideals of representative American painters (1901)
Rummell, John, Berlin, Emma Medora · Buffalo, N. Y. : E. M. Berlin · leaf 65
unearthly, charm which is pe-culiarly characteristic of Mr. Whistlerswork, and especially of his nocturnes. In his Arrangement in Black andGold, which he explains as a view inCremorne Gardens with the fireworks, hehas drawn with miraculous skill a showerof falling fire whirling through a blacksky;… … X. LTHOUGH it is his noc-turnes that distinguish Mr.Whistler as the great artistof the nineteenth century,he is also preeminent in his day andgeneration as a portrait-painter. If notquite the equal in all respects of thegreat Spaniard Velasquez, he often excelshim in artistic perception and beauty…
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