James McNeill Whistler's 1895 portrait of Rosie Randall, The
Little Rose of Lyme Regis, is his "finest portrait of a
child", Professor Daniel E. Sutherland says in his Whistler: A
life for art's sake (Yale, £25 (£22.50);
978-0-300-20346-2). It is one of this new biography's many colour
plates. Among the half-tones is Whistler's own photo of his
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's
Mother