_Paintings and Exhibitions--The Music Room--Visits to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Edwards--Summer in Brittany--"The White Girl" --Berners Street Gallery--Baudelaire on his Etchings-- Illustrations--Salon des Refuses--First Gold Medal_ CHAPTER X. CHELSEA DAYS. THE YEARS EIGHTEEN SIXTY-THREE TO EIGHTEEN SIXTY-SIX 76 _Settles with his Mother at No. 7 Lindsey Row, Chelsea-- The Greaves Family--The Limerston Street Studio and Mr. J. E. Christie--Rossetti--The Tudor House Circle, Swinburne, Meredith, Frederick Sandys, Howell--"Blue and White"-- W. M. Rossetti's Reminiscences_ CHAPTER XI. CHELSEA DAYS. THE YEARS EIGHTEEN SIXTY-THREE TO EIGHTEEN SIXTY-FOUR CONTINUED 86 _The Japanese Pictures--"The Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine"--Japanese Influence--"The Little White Girl" --Fantin's "Hommage à Delacroix"--"The Toast"--Arrival in London of Dr. Whistler--At Trouville with Courbet-- Journey to Valparaiso_ CHAPTER XII. CHELSEA DAYS CONTINUED. THE YEARS EIGHTEEN SIXTY-SIX TO EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-TWO 97 _Return to London--Removal to No. 2 Lindsey Row--The House and its Decorations--The 1867 Exhibition in Paris-- Affair at the Burlington Fine Arts Club--"Symphony in White, No. III." the First Picture Exhibited as a Symphony--Theories --Development--Discouragement--Mr. Fred Jameson's Reminiscences--Decoration--Hamerton's "Etching and Etchers" --Etchings and Dry-points--Exhibitions--Rejection at the Royal Academy--First Exhibition of Picture as a Nocturne-- Relations to the Royal Academy_ CHAPTER XIII. NOCTURNES. THE YEARS EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-TWO TO EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-EIGHT 112 _Nocturnes--Extent of Debt to Japanese--Methods and Materials--Subjects--Origin of Title--His Explanation in "The Gentle Art"_ CHAPTER XIV. PORTRAITS. THE YEARS EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-ONE TO EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-FOUR 118 _"The Mother"--"Carlyle"--"Miss Alexander"-Mr. and Mrs. Leyland--Mrs. Louis Huth--Show of his own Work in Pall Mall--Indignation roused by his Titles_ CHAPTER XV. THE OPEN DOOR. THE YEAR EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-FOUR AND AFTER 128 _Whistler's Gaiety and Hospitality--His Amusement in Society--His Dinners and Sunday Breakfasts--Reminiscences of his Entertainments--His Talk--Clubs--Restaurants-- The Theatre_ CHAPTER XVI. THE PEACOCK ROOM. THE YEARS EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-FOUR TO EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN 143 _Work at Exhibitions and in the Studio--Portrait of Irving --"Rosa Corder"--"The Fur Jacket"--"Connie Gilchrist"-- The Peacock Room--Mr. Leyland's House in Prince's Gate-- Its Decoration--Whistler's Scheme for the Dining-room and its Development--The Work Finished--Quarrel with Leyland_ CHAPTER XVII. THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. THE YEARS EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN AND EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-EIGHT 152