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11th November 2011

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People Who Studied Abroad #144:
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist

From:
United States

Studied:
As a child, he moved to Russia with his family, where he took private art lessons and enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Later in life he moved to Paris, France, where he studied at the Ecole Impériale and at the atelier of Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre.

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