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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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n this opinion, Mr. Whistler himself entirelyconcurs. This was not the sort of thing Whistler could pass over.His answer led to a correspondence which made another chapter inThe Gentle Art. Whistler repeated The Ten OClock several times; early in Marchbefore the British Artists, and later in the same month (the 24th)before the University Art Society at Cambridge, where he spent thenight with Sir Sidney Colvin, who wTrites us, beyond the mere factthat Whistler dined with me in Hall and had some chat there withPrince Edward—an amiable youth who was a little scared at the ideaof having to talk art (of which he was blankly ignorant) but whomWhistler soon put at his ease ; I have no precise recollection of whatpassed. What a pity ! On April 30 he gave his lecture at Oxford. Mr. Sidney Starr went down with Whistler and his brother, Doctor Willie, to theMitre. The lecture hall was small, with primitive benches, and theaudience was small, The lecture was delivered impressively^ but244 (1885
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THE DOORWAY etching. G. 188 By permission of the Fine Art Society (See page 190) The Ten OClock lacking the original emphasis and sparkle. Whistler hated to doanything twice over, and this was the fourth time. The fifth time was about the same date, at the Royal AcademyStudents Club in Golden Square, an unexplained accident, and thesixth at the Fine Art Societys. Dr. Moncure Conway wrote us ayear before his death that he heard The Ten O* Clock at Lady Jeunes,but Lady Jeune does not recollect it. Whistler we are sure wouldhave remembered and recorded it. There was a suggestion, whichcame to nothing, of taking it on an American tour and to Paris. Itwas heard twice more in London, once at the Grosvenor Gallery inFebruary 1888. Val Prinsep recalled Whistlers pressing invita-tion for him and Leighton to attend : During the time he was president of the British Artists, he andthe other heads of art sometimes were asked to dine by our President(Leighton). Rather late to ask me, dont you think

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