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to employ his sense of smell in preference to his eyesight; he calls the art critic P. G. Hamerton,
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He wrangled with Sir William Eden and even his friend Leyland about the price for ordered pictures, in each case making the whole transaction public; he attacked Tom Taylor and F. Wedmore for misquotations in their writings (he who had been guilty of the same thing himself), he quarrelled with the Academy when they repainted an old sign of his,
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and wrote most insulting letters to Wyke Bayliss, who has succeeded him in the presidency. He withdrew all his pictures from the Paris Exposition, because the American colonel, C. R. Hawkins, had refused a few of his etchings in a rather impolite manner. The real reason was lack of space, and one could hardly expect from an American colonel the manners of a Chesterfield. Surely, Whistler did not possess them himself. He, at all times, practised more
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than manners, his language had at times an irritating touch of rudeness and coarseness. The feuds were endless. He continually baited his fellow artists. He called the pre-Raphaelites
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What a damn crew. Legros, Val Prinsep, W. P. Frith, Sir Frederick Leighton and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, were at one time or another recipients. Everybody who came in contact with him, William M. Chase,
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Why drag in Velasquez! his
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Goodness gracious! you don't fancy a man owns a picture because he bought it, or
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Indeed! it is not every man in England I paint for. Then again talking about Leighton,
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Yes, and he paints too. In meeting Du Maurier and Wilde at one of the exhibitions Whistler burst forth:
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I say, which one of you invented the other, eh! The famous repartee, Whistler:--
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Nature's creeping up. Oscar Wilde:
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Heavens, I wish I had said that!
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You will,
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With our James, vulgarity begins at home; would that it might stop there,