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What strikes one in Whistler's biography, says Laurence Binyon, the London critic and poet,
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This is the Whistler that the world knew. But there was another Whistler, Mr. Binyon suggests,--
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A man of singular sensitiveness, who shunned the vulgar daytime and stole abroad at twilight ... bent always on revealing to his fellow men the loveliness that lurks in familiar sights and among the dingy aspects of a modern city.
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Men of the Day, signed John Junior, says:
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Mr. Whistler--'Jimmy' as his friends call him--is personally one of the most charming, simple and witty of men. He touches nothing but he embellishes and enlivens it with startling novelty of conceit. His hereditary lock of white hair is a rallying point of humour wherever he goes, and his studio is the resort of all who delight in hearing the new thing.
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Peacock Room, which he did for Mr. Leyland, shows his genius as a decorator, and conservative opinion is, that he was even greater as an etcher than as a painter. He had engraved, and painted in water-colours, of course, and his attire, from his top-coat to his shoe strings, was made from his own designs. Apparently he chafed under the academic tyranny of even the tailor. Of his powers in mimicry and in character acting his friend never tired of talking and telling anecdotes which illustrate it, and indicate that even in drollery his art is as subtle as in work of seriousness and dignity.
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Dickens was not a patch on him,
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Metropolitan Magazine