Self-Portrait of James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter, c. 1872On 28 July 1877, Whistler initiated a libel action against Ruskin. 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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Julie Codell, “On the Grosvener Gallery, 1877-90″

Nicholas Frankel, “On the Whistler-Ruskin Trial, 1878″

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