Enter James MacNeill Whistler

Whistler, American in origin, came from studying in France, to settle in London in the early 1860s. He took a house in Chelsea close to Rossetti with whom he set up an uneasy friendship. He began a series of enigmatic pictures often with musical titles.

Symphony in White no. 1: The White Girl (1862)

Symphony in White no. 2: The Little White Girl (1864)