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Date c. 1850 - c. 1899
Significant Works The Picture of Dorian Gray
Related Artists Théophile Gautier • Walter Pater • Oscar Wilde • Dante Gabriel Rossetti • James McNeill Whistler • Algernon Charles Swinburne • Edward Burne-Jones • Aubrey Beardsley • Edward Godwin • Francis Thompson

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Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 by James McNeill Whistler shows Whistler's mother in profile, seated in a black dress against a gray wall with framed art.
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