Whistler's paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, ...

The American-born artist, James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903) dominated the late 19th century art world. The University of Glasgow houses the world's largest public display of Whistler's art.

In 1904, 37 of Monet’s series of paintings of the Thames, made between 1899 and 1901 ... (He never painted night scenes, on the basis that Whistler had got there first.) People do feature ...