Social Circle

Whistler moved in high class and elite literary and artistic circles in Paris and London. He was friendly with Lady Archibald Campbell and Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. He was not afraid to mix with notorious society figures such as the divorced Lady Colin Campbell and Lady Meux, who was shunned by her husband’s family because she used to work as an actress. In the late 1880s and 1890s when he was living in Paris, Whistler attended the parties of the renowned Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé [link – Key figures] where he met many famous French artistic figures.