The Whistler book : a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works (1910)
waspaid lavishly and the boy was brought up inluxury. The first report of any art talent in the boycan be found in the reference, mentioned byseveral biographers, to his taking lessons at theImperial Academy of Sciences at St. Peters-burg. It had probably no particular bearingon his career, since… … c^ PEN AND INK SKETCH, MADE AT WEST POINT. Quartier Latin and Chelsea ll drawing at an early age. Of by far greaterimportance to his development were his visitsto the Hermitage. There he saw for the firsttime Velasquez and he learnt to differentiatebetween painters who could paint and suchwho could…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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