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John owes some allegiance to that once terrible fellow, James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He admits that, when he was an art student, Whistler "enslaved" him. Like Whistler, John takes all painting for his province, and paints as he pleases. But the pictures that have brought him fame & fortune are not landscapes and murals but portraits. The gallery of John's sitters is a contemporary gallery of Britain's great ones: from Thomas Hardy to Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth. (It also includes some rich Americans and some spectacular unknowns, such as a haughty-looking farmer and a deep...
Paintings, including masterpieces by Rodin, Whistler, and Roosetti, are included in the gift which museum authorities estimate have actually doubled the size of the original Fogg collection. Winthrop also included $100,000 in his bequest to care for the art objects...
...When Critic John Ruskin accused Artist James Whistler of "wilful imposture," the jury held that this reflected on Whistler's personal integrity, not his art, and so was libelous. Whistler asked ?1,000 damages, received one farthing...
...some of his friends-including Sickert and Max Beer-bohm-gave Walter Greaves a big dinner and a check for ?150. He died, grey and penniless, in 1930 in a London almshouse, dejected because the authorities would not let him blacken his hair, so that it would be like Whistler...
Return of a Reputation. Last week 28 of Walter Greaves's paintings were on exhibition in a London gallery, an indication that his reputation was on the rise again-as a painter in his own right. His pleasingly melancholy river scenes lacked the sophistication of Whistler's art, but had a simple boatman's directness and integrity. "To Mr. Whistler," dogged Walter once said, "a boat was always a tone; to me it was always a boat...