She painted a large canvas in 1884, Les Derniers Jours d ' Enfance, a portrait of her sister and nephew whose composition and style revealed a debt to James McNeill Whistler and whose subject matter was akin to Mary Cassatt's mother-and-child paintings.

Historically, one of the best known nominal damage awards was the farthing that the jury awarded to James Whistler in his libel suit against John Ruskin.

Munch was particularly inspired by Gauguin's " reaction against realism " and his credo that " art was human work and not an imitation of Nature ", a belief earlier stated by Whistler.

In Japonisme, late-19th-century artists like the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler admired traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and Hiroshige and their work was influenced by it.

His mother, Maud Humphrey, was a commercial illustrator, who received her art training in New York and France, including study with James McNeill Whistler, and who later became artistic director of the fashion magazine The Delineator.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born painter who played a part in Impressionism although he did not join the group and preferred grayed colours.

Walter Sickert, an English artist, was initially a follower of Whistler, and later an important disciple of Degas ; he did not exhibit with the Impressionists.

The most recent was Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who suffered a fatal crash during his final practice run for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.

The first ever 3x5twist performed on snow during competition was by Czech aerialist Ales Valenta in 2002 during WC in Whistler, CAN.

Fort Dearborn was constructed by United States troops under the command of Captain John Whistler in 1803.

Whistler was replaced by Captain Nathan Heald, who had been stationed at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

It was constructed by troops under Captain John Whistler and named in honor of Henry Dearborn, then United States Secretary of War.

Captain John Whistler was selected as commandant of the new post, and set out with six men to complete the survey.

In April, Whistler and other senior officers at the fort were removed ; Whistler was replaced as commandant of the fort by Captain Nathan Heald.

Besides being adopted by artists like Emile Gallé and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Japanese-inspired art and design was championed by the businessmen Siegfried Bing and Arthur Lasenby Liberty at their stores in Paris and London, respectively.

In 1719, he bought Battle Abbey from Sir Henry Whistler, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd baronet ( died 1779, leaving a widow, but no children ; whereupon he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother ).

James Abbott McNeill Whistler ( July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903 ) was an American-born, British-based artist.

James Abbott Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.

He was the first child born to Anna Matilda McNeill and George Washington Whistler, a prominent engineer.

Young Whistler was a moody child prone to fits of temper and insolence, who — after bouts of ill-health — often drifted into periods of laziness.

* January 3 – Anna McNeill Whistler, James Whistlers mother and subject of his painting ( b. 1804 )

Again, although his mother is the subject, Whistler commented that the narrative was of little importance.

Whistler has been the subject of many major museum exhibitions, studies, and publications.

Yan detachable lifts were subject to a series of accidents, most notably the Quicksilver lift at Whistler Mountain in British Columbia, Canada.

Although dangerous and unpopular, the bridge was the last surviving wooden bridge on the Thames in London, and was the subject of paintings by many significant artists such as J. M. W. Turner, John Sell Cotman and James McNeill Whistler, including Whistler's Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge, and his controversial Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket.

Anna Matilda ( née McNeill ) Whistler ( September 27, 1804 – January 3, 1881 ) was the mother of American-born, British-based painter, James McNeill Whistler, who made her the subject of his famous painting " Arrangement in Grey & Black No. 1 ", often titled, Whistler's Mother.

Whistler was interested in the history of England before the Norman Conquest and this is reflected in the subject matter of his prolific work as a historical novelist.

Whistler: a biography ( New York: Da Capo Press ).

Although Rossetti worked full time as a civil servant, he maintained a prolific output of criticism and biography across a range of interests from Algernon Swinburne to James McNeill Whistler.

Richard Ellmann describes the effect of the book in his biography of Oscar Wilde: Whistler rushed to congratulate Huysmans the next day on his ' marvellous ' book.

Their close acquaintance with Whistler led the Pennells to undertake a biography of that artist in 1906, and, after some litigation with his executrix on the right to use his letters, the book was published in 1908.

Plan of Fort Dearborn drawn by John Whistler in 1808

Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Charles-François Daubigny, Max Liebermann, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Gustave Courbet, and in the Netherlands, Jacobus van Looy and Isaac Israëls are some of the Impressionists and realists who have delved deeply into the work of Hals by making study copies of his work and further building on his techniques and style.

In a 1904 novel by Charles Whistler entitled A Prince of Cornwall Glastonbury in the days of Ine of Wessex is portrayed.

When his portrait was painted by Sir William Boxall in 1848, the young Whistler exclaimed that the portrait was " very much like me and a very fine picture.

His cousin reported that Whistler at that time was " slight, with a pensive, delicate face, shaded by soft brown curls … he had a somewhat foreign appearance and manner, which, aided by natural abilities, made him very charming, even at that age.

In a second painting executed in the same room, Whistler demonstrated his natural inclination toward innovation and novelty by fashioning a genre scene with unusual composition and foreshortening.

When Degas invited Whistler to exhibit with the first show by the Impressionists in 1874, Whistler turned down the invitation, as did Manet, and some scholars attributed this in part to Fantin-Latour's influence on both men.

Like Whistler, Monet and Pissarro both focused their efforts on views of the city, and it is likely that Whistler was exposed to the evolution of Impressionism founded by these artists and that they had seen his nocturnes.

For a few months he lived in Baltimore with a wealthy friend, Tom Winans, who even furnished Whistler with a studio and some spending cash.

Whistler, seeing the attack in the newspaper, replied to his friend George Boughton, " It is the most debased style of criticism I have had thrown at me yet.

Whistler was well known for his biting wit, especially in exchanges with his friend and rival Oscar Wilde.

He was a close friend of William Shenstone, Anthony Whistler, lowborn Ralph Allen, and William Warburton.

His erstwhile friend Whistler sent him a letter mocking his perceived aggrandisement: " Theodore ," it read, " What's Dunton?

Several smallholdings were established between World War I and World War II, one by Mortimer Menpes, the artist and friend of Whistler.

The killings coincide with the marriage of Sickert's close friend and mentor, the famous painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who later distanced himself from Sickert, even suing Sickert later in life.

Her lover at the time was James Whistler, the American painter and friend of Courbet.

Around this time, Tissot also made the acquaintance of James McNeill Whistler as well as Edgar Degas ( who had also been a student of Lamothe and a friend of Delaunay ) and Édouard Manet.

Born in Philadelphia, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend, James McNeill Whistler, he afterwards went to Europe and made his home in London.