Mortimer Menpes — Whistler As I Knew Him

New York and London, The Macmillan Company, 1904. Cloth. A delightful first edition of Mortimer Menpe's biography of American painter James McNeill Whistler, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and plates in monochrome throughout. Best known for the painting made depicting his mother, James McNeill Whistler was an American painter who worked mostly in the United Kingdom, his works often sentimental in nature.Mortimer Menpes was a British painter, illustrator and printmaker. He created a form of colour etching, as well as publishing 'War Impressions', the first book to reproduce coloured art works faithfully, making him a pioneer of illustrated art books. Menpes had been a pupil of Whistler, having met him in Brittany in 1880.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Whistler, as well as one hundred and thirty-four plates in colour and black and white. Collated, complete. The first U.S. edition of this charming biography. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; a little bumped to the head and tail of the spine, with a slight mark to the head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are occasionally spotted and uncut. Very Good . Ill.: Mortimer Menpes. Very Good .