Whistler exhibits eight oil paintings, including Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, at the inaugural exhibition of the Grosvenor Gallery, established by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife as a venue for art of the Aesthetic and Pre-Raphaelite schools. Image: Self-Portrait of James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter, c. 1872 (Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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