St. Ives, Cornwall (1884) Notebook

Perfect for scribbling and organising, notebooks are as popular as ever for customers to use as travel journals, event planning, and for work or school notes. The American artist James Abbot NcNeill Whistler (1834-1903), known simply as 'Whistler', was born in Lowell, Massachusetts near Boston, USA. He had travelled as a youth with his engineer father, living both in Russia and in England. In 1855 he went as a student to Paris, where he met Degas, and was greatly influenced by Courbet. By the time he came to spend the April-May of 1884 in St Ives, Cornwall, he was already well-known, even 'infamous', considered highly eccentric, for the 1878 quarrel with Ruskin, leading to the trial which left him with 1 farthing damages. He stayed at 14 Barnoon Terrace in St Ives. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, 1883-1884