BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE PAINTERS. 

 AMERICAN PAINTERS. 



JAMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER. 



Painter and etcher; bom at Lowell, Mass., in 1834; died at his home in 

 Chelsea, London, July 17, 1903. His father, Maj. George Washington 

 Whistler, was invited by the Czar of Russia to superintend the construction 

 of the St. Petersburg & Moscow Railroad, and therefore from his eighth 

 to his fifteenth year he lived in Russia. After his father's death in 1849, he 

 retvuTied to America, and in 1851 entered West Point Military Academy, 

 but did not graduate; later he was connected with the Coast Survey at 

 Washington, D. C. In 1855 Whistler went to England, but shortly after 

 he moved to Paris and studied under Gleyre. A portrait of himself etched 

 in 1859 is the first work of any consequence that is recorded; the same year 

 he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, and four years later settled in 

 London. In 1863 his " Symphony in White ' ' was refused at the Salon, but 

 was hung at the Salon des Refuses, where it made a great sensation. Of 

 his many paintings, the masterpiece is the "Portrait of My Mother," pur- 

 chased by the French Government, and now at the Luxembourg in Paris. 

 He delighted in night effects, and his portraits are at their best when the 

 general impression most closely resembles his "nocturnes. " While he was 

 one of the great painters of all times, yet it is as an etcher that Whistler 

 ranks supreme. Of the many plates that he etched, the series of sixteen 

 known as the Thames Series takes the first rank. Whistler, the man, was 

 perhaps the most interesting personality in the art world of the last quarter 

 of the nineteenth century; his wit, his epigrams, his "gentle art of making 

 enemies," kept him constantly before the public. American Art Annual, 

 New York, IV, igoj-jf. 



THOMAS WILMER DEWING. 



Bom, Boston, Mass., May 4, 1851. Pupil of Boulanger and Lefebvre in 

 Paris. Clarke prize, Nat. Acad. Design, 1887; silver medal, Paris Exp. 

 1889; gold medals, Pan-American Exp., Buffalo, 1901, and St. Louis Exp. 

 1904; Lippincott prize, Penn. Acad. Fine Arts, 1905; first medal, Carnegie 

 Institute, 1908. N. A. 1888. Specialty, protraits and figures. Studio, 

 New York. 



DWIGHT WILLIAM TRYON. 



Bom, Hartford, Conn., August 13, 1849. Pupil of C. Daubigny, Jac- 

 quesson de la Chevreuse, A. Guillemet, and H. Harpignies in Paris. Bronze 

 medal, Boston, 1882; gold medals, American Art Assoc, New York, 1886 

 and 18S7; third Hallgarten prize, Nat. Acad. Design, 1887; Ellsworth prize, 

 Chicago Art Inst. 1888; Palmer prize, Chicago Interstate Exp. 1889; Webb 

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