Whistler, James

1. A nineteenth-century American artist who spent most of his career in England and France . He is best known for the painting popularly called Whistler's Mother.

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James Whistler, in a painter's smock, stood at one end of the room at work.

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James Whistler is of American extraction, and studied painting in France.

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James Whistler was always kind to young artists and liked to have them sit by him while he worked.

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Well, it did not look for a while as if there was any more good luck in the world for James Whistler.

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This smacks of the inverted wisdom of the late James Whistler.

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