Purple and Rose.
Lent by J. Leathart.
"Mr. Whistler paints subjects sadly below the merit of his pencil."—London Review.
"A worse specimen of humanity than could be found on the oldest piece of china in existence."
Reader.
"The hideous forms we find in his Chinese vase painteress ... an ostentatious slovenliness of execution ... objects as much out of perspective as the great blue vase in the foreground, &c. ... &c....
"It is Mr. Whistler's way to choose people and things for painting which other painters would turn from, and to combine these oddly chosen materials as no other painter would choose to combine them. He should learn that eccentricity is not originality, but the caricature of it."—Times.
Trafalgar Square—Snow.
Lent by Albert Moore, Esq.