Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Title: Purple and Rose - Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 32 inches x 21 inches - Framed: Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Biography: James McNeill Whistler, in full James Abbott McNeill Whistler, (born July 11, 1834, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.--died July 17, 1903, London, England), American-born artist noted for his paintings of nocturnal London, for his striking and stylistically advanced full-length portraits, and for his brilliant etchings and lithographs. An articulate theorist about art, he did much to introduce modern French painting into England. His most famous work is Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871; also called Portrait of the Artist's Mother or Whistler's Mother).

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