You might be very surprised to learn that the artist who painted one of Americas most famous works, sometimes considered to be the very symbol of American motherhood, “Arrangement in Black and Gray” ( much better known as “ Whistler’s Mother”) spent most of his life outside of the United States and left the country at the age of twenty-one never to return.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in 1834 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the third son of a West Point graduate who later became a civil engineer George Washington Whistler, and his second wife Anna Matilda McNeill. After living briefly in Stonington, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, the Whistlers moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father served as a civil engineer
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