James McNeill Whistler

10 July 1834 – 17 July 1903

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An American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake" (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler>Wikipedia</a>).