James Abbot McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, United States in 1834. Although coexists in time with the golden age of Impressionism (Manet exhibited at the Salon des Refuses in 1863), his way of painting resembling a way of understanding this more own style of Edgar Degas. Installed in London, defends an attitude towards modern art. Write The art of making enemies, "enemies" among which would be critical John Ruskin, who stars in a famous dispute. James Whistler died in London in 1903.