Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928 · London and Edinburgh : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 283
ltimore, descended from Scottishstock, was born on the iith of July 1834 James Abbott MNeillWhistler, who was to bring immortal fame to the name. Atseventeen the youth was sent to the military college at West Point,but his time being up, he surrendered the sword for the brush, and170 XXI WHISTLliR… … OF PAINTING made for Paris at twenty-one, never to see his native land again, WHEREINentering the studio of Gleyre in 1855, where Du Maurier and WE SEEPoynter were amongst his fellow-students. Fantin-Latour came MASS-into his life when Whistler was copying the Old Masters at the IMPRES-Louvre ; and…
Painting · Painters
Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
