American Tonalist Painter and Printmaker, 1834-1903, He was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.   Related Paintings of James Abbott Mcneill Whistler :. | George W Vanderbilt | Arrangement in Gray Portrait of the Painter | Arrangement in Grey and Black | Old Battersea Beach | Mother of pearl and silver |
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Francois Bernard
painted Portrait of Two Chitimacha Indians in 1870
Alfred de Dreux
1810 - 1860
LEFEBVRE, Claude
French painter (b. 1637, Fontainebleau, d. 1675, Paris