. Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler . •■■ ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK. LA DAME AU BRODEQUINE JAUNE ONS AND D .it he did not wis!tg himself in any waymsidered a comn aid Whistler, as he painces. Lord for the shed, exhibited as —and du ed surprise thatartist to on. in Philadel- I to exhibit his workiid 188 I20 i TWaMaGKAflflA. OF JAMES A. McNEILL whistler either prints or paintings in the rooms of the FineArts Society. He always occupied the place of honor with theInternational Society at Knightsbridge. Occasionally he would use the galleries of dealers,but not o
. Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler . •■■ ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK. LA DAME AU BRODEQUINE JAUNE ONS AND D .it he did not wis!tg himself in any waymsidered a comn aid Whistler, as he painces. Lord for the shed, exhibited as —and du ed surprise thatartist to on. in Philadel- I to exhibit his workiid 188 I20 i TWaMaGKAflflA. OF JAMES A. McNEILL whistler either prints or paintings in the rooms of the FineArts Society. He always occupied the place of honor with theInternational Society at Knightsbridge. Occasionally he would use the galleries of dealers,but not often, and then only upon his own terms. While living at Chelsea he had Carlyle as a nearneighbor, and of his own notion he painted the por-trait that now hangs in Glasgow. These two extraordinary beings were quite conge-nial. The dogmatic old philosopher, then past sev-enty-five, sat day after day to the eccentric painter,who was nearly forty years his junior, as patiently asif he were a professional model, and the sittings werelong and tedious. One day, as he was leaving, quite exhausted, hemet at the door a little girl in white, and he askedher name. I am Miss Alexander, she said, primly, and Iam going to have my portrait painted. The sage shook his head in commiseration, andmuttered, as he passed on : Puir lassie, puir lassie ! If proof were requ
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