Nocturne, Grey and Silver, Chelsea Embankment, Winter (1879)

            American-born James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) made London his permanent home from the late 1850s, living near the River Thames at Chelsea. His feisty personality and firm views about ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ put him into head-on conflict with the English art establishment.

The depiction of a murky winter’s day is one work that would have dismayed Whistler’s many critics. The quasi-musical title would have been dismissed as effete, and there is no moral tale to tell, nor is there an abundance of Pre-Raphaelite colour. Another Whistler Chelsea scene prompted John Ruskin to proclaim that it was a the work of a coxcomb, who was outrageously demanding 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face. Whistler sued, won his case in court but received only a derisory single farthing in damages.

Several patrons rescued Whistler from penury, although that did not stop him from sometimes quarrelling with them. Later in his life, American industrialist and art collector Charles Lang Freer bought several Whistler artworks. They can now be viewed at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

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