f anything
like real flesh tones the painting is quite innocent."--_Builder._

"But what can we say of Mr. Whistler? His portrait of Miss
Alexander is certainly one of the strangest and most eccentric
specimens of Portraiture we ever saw. If we were unacquainted with his
singular theories of Art, we should imagine he had merely made a
sketch and left it, before the colours were dry, in a room where
chimney-sweeps were at work.... Nobody who sets any value upon the
roses and lilies that adorn the cheeks of our blooming girls can
accept such murky tints as these as representative of a young English
lady"--_Era._

"It is simply a disagreeable presentment of a disagreeable young
lady."--_Liverpool Weekly Mercury._

"Mr. Whistler again appears on the walls with a characteristic
full-length life-size portrait of a girl, Miss Alexander.

"This work is devoid of colour, being arranged in Black and White and
intermediate tones of grey. The general effect is dismal in the
extreme, and one cannot but wonder how an artist of undoubted talent
should wilfully persist in such perversities of judgment."--_Western
Daily Mercury._

"Miss Alexander, almost in Black and White, and about the most
unattractive piece of work in the Galleries."--_Edinburgh Daily
Review._

"A 'gruesomeness in Grey.'

"Well, bless thee, J. Whistler! We do not hanker after your brush
system. Farewell!"--_Punch._

"'AN ARRANGEMENT IN SILVER AND BILE.'

"The artist has represented this bilious young lady as looking haughty
in a dirty white dress, a grey polonaise, bound by a grey green sash,
a grey hat, with the most unhealthy green feather; furthermore, she
wears black shoes with green bows, and stands defiantly on a grey
floor cloth, opposite a grey wall with a black dado. Two dyspeptic
butterflies hover wearily above her head in search _of a bit of
colour_ ... evidently losing heart at the grey expanse around.... A
picture should charm, not depress, it should tend to elevate our
thoughts!"--_Society._

"This picture represents a child of ten, and is called a harmony in
grey and green, but the prevailing tone is a rather unpleasant yellow,
and the complexion of the face is wholly unchildlike."--_Echo._

"A large etching in oil, a 'Rhapsody in Raw Child and Cobwebs,' by Mr.
Whistler."--_Artist._

"Mr. Whistler is as spectral as ever in an unattractive portrait of an
awkward little girl, happily not rendered additionally ridiculou