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Whistler
painted comparatively little in the last 20
years of his life. In 1888 he married Mrs. Godwin,
a friend he had long admired. For some years
they lived in Paris. The Portrait of the Artist's
Mother was bought for the French nation in 1891.
Whistler was made an officer of the Legion of
Honor, and one of his lectures called "Ten o'Clock"
was translated into French. Two years after
his wife's death in 1896, he opened the short-lived
Academie Whistler in Paris. By 1902, a sick
man, he began to destroy the drawings and paintings
he thought unsatisfactory. He died in London
in 1903.
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