births
July 11, 1834
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter and illustrator (died 1903)
James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 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".