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For Whistler’s painting, too, by the way, “clever” was the word. Sir John Millais’s dictum, given in his Life and Letters by his son, is: “ Clever a fellow as he [Whistler] is — a man who has never ...

The story behind the Smithsonian’s showstopper is one of a major dust-up between the artist and his patron Roger Catlin - Museums Correspondent “This room is one of the masterworks of late ...