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Where did James McNeill Whistler spend part of his childhood outside the United States?
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James McNeill Whistler
Portrait of American-born artist James McNeill Whistler, c. 1868.
As a boy, James McNeill Whistler spent part of his childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father worked as a civil engineer. Before returning to the United States by 1849, he also spent a short time in England.1