James McNeill Whistler
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 120 years ago |
| Date of birth | July 11,1834 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Lowell |
| Massachusetts | |
| United States | |
| Died | London |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | July 17,1903 |
| Periods | Modern art |
| Aestheticism | |
| Tonalism | |
| Influences | Gustave Courbet |
| Walter Sickert | |
| Robert Walter Weir | |
| Parents | Anna McNeill Whistler |
| George Washington Whistler | |
| Spouse | Beatrice Whistler |
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| ID | 4011812 |
James McNeill Whistler Life story
James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".