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Title: Life of James McNeill Whistler,
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennell, Elizabeth Robins,
Subjects: American Art
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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culptors who worked on the awful Albert Memorial.She was large, so that Whistler was dwarfed beside her, dark and hand-some, more foreign in appearance, but not in person, than English.Whistler delighted in a tradition that there was gipsy blood in herfamily. She had studied art in Paris and with him, and he was proudof her as a pupil. Her work included several decorative designs, anda series of etchings made to illustrate the English edition of Van EedensLittle Johannes. Only a few of the plates were finished, and of thesesome proofs were shown in the first exhibition of the InternationalSociety and in the Paris Memorial Exhibition, while Mr. Heinemannhad the intention of publishing a series of illustrations which she andWhistler drew on the wood. Mr. Labouchere holds himself responsible for the marriage, andtold the story in Truth (July 23, 1903) : 11 I believe that I am responsible for his marriage to the widowof Mr. Godwin, the architect. She was a remarkably pretty woman268 (1888
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PORTRAIT OF LADY MEUXHARMONY IN PINK AND GREY OILIn the possession of the Executors of Lady Meux(See page 209) M ARRIAGE and very agreeable, and both she and he were thorough Bohemians.I was dining with them and some others one evening at Earls Court.They were obviously greatly attracted to each other, and in a vaguesort of way they thought of marrying. So I took the matter in handto bring things to a practical point. Jemmy, I said, will you marryMrs. Godwin ? Certainly, he replied. Mrs. Godwin, I said, will you marry Jemmy ? Certainly, she replied. When ? Iasked. Oh, some day, said Whistler. That wont do, I said, we must have a date. So they both agreed that I should choose theday, what church to come to for the ceremony, provide the clergyman,and give the bride away. I fixed an early date, and got the thenChaplain of the House of Commons (the Rev. Mr. Byng) to performthe ceremony. It took place a few days later. After the ceremony was over, we adjourned to Whistlers studio,where he

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