"Mr. Whistler is anything but a robust and balanced genius."—Times.
"Whistler, with three portraits which he is pleased to call 'Arrangements,' and which look like ghosts."
Truth.
"Some figure pieces, which this artist exhibits as 'harmonies' in this, that, or the other, being, as they are, mere rubs-in of colour, have no claim to be regarded as pictures."—Scotsman.
"We are threatened with a Whistler exhibition. The periodical inflictions with which this gentleman tries the patience of a long-suffering public generally take some fantastic form to attract attention. It is an evidence of the painter's worldly acuteness that this should be so, for public attention may be drawn by such outbursts of eccentricity to such work as would never impress sensible people on its bare merit."—Oracle.
9.—NOCTURNE.
Blue and Silver.
Lent by Mrs. Leyland.
"It seems to us a pity that an artist of Mr. Whistler's known ability should exhibit such an extraordinary collection of pictile nightmares."—Society.
"Mr. Bowen: 'Do you consider detail and composition essential to a work of art?'