JAMES MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834-1903) American artist, a portrait painter with a pugnacious attitude best remembered for the portrait of his mother seated in a rocker. A superb Whistler piece, a signed photograph of one of his paintings depicting an evening scene of a dock with several ships at anchor in the background, image size 10" x 7" matted to 20" x 15", very nicely signed beneath the image on the mat in pencil "Whistler " and adding his ornate "butterfly" paraph. Fine condition, ideal for framing. $600-800