James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, 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".
- Occupation
- painter, etcher, illustrator, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 10, 1834
- Died
- July 17, 1903
