Excerpt from The Portraits and Caricatures of James McNeill Whistler<br><br>E Two of these six paintings owned in America are in the unrivalled Charles L. Freer colleé'tion Detroit which has been generously donated to the National Gal lery of Art at Washington.' These are the early, but soundly modelled, Portrait of Whistler with Hat a study of the artist's head and shoulders, which the Pennells state it is evident was sug gested by Rembrandt's 'young Man' in the Louvre, and the half-length portrait painted about 1 867 This latter paint in g, as is noted in the catalogue,pennells' Life does not regard as an authentic work of the artist. Mr. Freer, on the other hand, informs me he is absolutely certain that it was painted by Whistler. The second portrait in the iconography is an early study, executed about 1860.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.