He sued John Ruskin for libelous comments about this artist's (*) Nocturnes, which include a painting of a fireworks show over Cremorne Garden subtitled The Falling Rocket.
This artist may have begun to use a butterfly cipher after the rejection of his painting The Princess from the Land of Porcelain by a client; that painting hung in a room this artist decorated with gold leaf known as the Peacock Room. He sued John Ruskin for libelous comments about this artist's (*) Nocturnes, which include a painting of a fireworks show over Cremorne Garden subtitled The Falling Rocket. This artist's most famous painting depicts an old woman with a white bonnet in profile sitting down with her arms folded in her lap. Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 is colloquially known as a painting of, for 10 points, whose mother?
This artist may have begun to use a butterfly cipher after the rejection of his painting The Princess from the Land of Porcelain by a client; that painting hung in a room this artist decorated with gold leaf known as the Peacock Room.
James MacNeill Whistler