Life of James McNeill Whistler, . ,^Captain Benham is dead, but his son, Major H. H. Benham, writes32 [1855. STREET AT SAVERNE ETCHING. G. 19 {Seepage 43) Student Days In the Latin Quarter us : I have heard my father tell the story. He was very fond ofWhistler, and thought most highly of his great ability—cr rathergenius, I should say. Genius like Whistlers served him as little at the Coast Survey asat West Point. He resigned in February 1855. His brother, GeorgeWhistler, and Mr. Winans tried again to make him enter the locomo-tive works in Baltimore. He was twenty-one, old enough to insistupo
Life of James McNeill Whistler, . ,^Captain Benham is dead, but his son, Major H. H. Benham, writes32 [1855. STREET AT SAVERNE ETCHING. G. 19 {Seepage 43) Student Days In the Latin Quarter us : I have heard my father tell the story. He was very fond ofWhistler, and thought most highly of his great ability—cr rathergenius, I should say. Genius like Whistlers served him as little at the Coast Survey asat West Point. He resigned in February 1855. His brother, GeorgeWhistler, and Mr. Winans tried again to make him enter the locomo-tive works in Baltimore. He was twenty-one, old enough to insistupon what he wanted, and what he wanted was to study art. Alreadyat St. Petersburg his ability had struck his mothers friends. AtPomfret and West Point he owed to his drawing whatever distinctionhe had attained. And there had been things done outside of schooland Academy and office work, he told us— portraits of my cousinAnnie Denny and of Tom Winans, and many paintings at Stoningtonthat Stonington people remembered so well they looked me up inParis afterwards. Indeed, all the while, ever since my Russ
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