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THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill. 
Born, Lowell, Mass., July n, 1834; died, London, England, July 17, 1903. 
Cadet at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., from 
1851 to 1854; draughtsman for a few months in the U. S. Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, where he learned the technicalities of etching on copper; became 
pupil of Gleyre in Paris in 1855 ; settled in London in 1859, in which year he 
began to exhibit at the Royal Academy. One of the great painters of his 
time, it was as an etcher that he ranked supreme. He also produced many 
lithographs. Elected a member of the British Artists in 1884, and two 
years later made president, he resigned in 1888. He was an Officer of the 
Legion of Honor of France; a member of the Soci6t6 Nationale des Artistes 
Frangais ; Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy; Chevalier of the 
Order of St. Michael of Bavaria; honorary member of the Royal Academies 
of Bavaria, Dresden, and St. Luke in Rome; and president of the Interna- 
tional Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers of England. 
Oil Paintings — t 
Portrait Sketch of Mr. Whistler. 
Portrait of Major Whistler. 
Portrait or F. R. Leyland. 
Rose and Silver — La Princess du Pays de la Porcelaine. 
Jeune Femme Dite L’Americaine — Arrangement in Black 
and White. No. i. 
Nocturne. Southampton. 
Nocturne. Blue and Silver — Bognor. 
Nocturne. Blue and Silver — Battersea Reach. 
Nocturne. Gray and Silver — Chelsea Embankment. 
Symphony in Gray — Early Morning, Thames. 
Nocturne. Opal and Silver. 
The Thames in Ice. 
Blue and Silver — Trouville. 
Variations in Pink and Gray — Chelsea. 
Variations in Flesh Color and Green — The Balcony. 
Harmony in Purple and Gold, No. 2 — The Golden Screen. 
The Little Blue and Gold Girl. 
Venus Rising from the Sea. 
Venus. 
Symphony in Green and Violet. 
The White Symphony — Three Girls. 
Symphony in White and Red. 
Variations in Blue and Green. 
Symphony in Blue and Pink. 
