_Mr. Wedmore,
"Nineteenth Century."_

35.--GREY AND SILVER.

CHELSEA WHARF.

_Lent by Gerald Potter, Esq._

36.--GREY AND SILVER.

OLD BATTERSEA REACH.

_Lent by Madame Coronio._

37.--BLUE AND SILVER.

"He has no atmosphere and no light. Instead of air he studies various
kinds of fog--and his 'values' are the relative powers of darkness,
not of light. He never paints a sky."--_Merrie England._

38.--NOCTURNE.

_BLUE AND GOLD--ST. MARK'S, VENICE._

_Lent by Monsieur Gallimard._

"The mannerism of Canaletto is the most degraded that I know in
the whole range of art....

"... It gives no one single architectural ornament, however
near--so much form as might enable us even to guess at its
actual one; and this I say not rashly, for I shall prove it
by placing portions of detail accurately copied from Canaletto
side by side with engravings from the daguerreotype.

"... There is _no_ stone drawing, _no_ vitality of architecture
like Prout's."--_Prof. Ruskin, Art Teacher._

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"In Mr. Whistler's productions one might safely say that there is no
culture."--_Athenaeum._

"Imagine a man of genius following in the wake of
Whistler!"--_Oracle._

"The measure of originality has at times been overrated through the
innocent error of the budding amateur, who in the earlier stage of his
enlightenment confuses the beginning with the end, accepts the
intention for the adequate fulfilment, and exalts an adroit sketch
into the rank of a permanent picture."

_F. Wedmore, "Four Masters of Etching."_

39.--CREPUSCULE IN OPAL.

_Lent by Fred. Jameson, Esq._

"Mr. Whistler is eminently an 'Impressionist.' The final business of
art is not with 'impressions.' We want not 'impressionists' but
'expressionists,' men who can say what they mean because they know
what they have heard. [_Sic!_]

"We want not always the blotches and misty suggestions of the
impressionist, _&c._"--_Artist._

40.--HARMONY IN FLESH COLOUR AND GREEN.

THE BALCONY.

_Lent by John Cavafy, Esq., M.D._

"It is perhaps a little difficult for any critic to be quite
absolutely just to Mr. Whistler at p