Whistler greatly admired Dutch masters such as bJan Steen/b, Rembrandt and Ruysdael. In 1858 he visited Holland to view the Nightwatch. Indeed, he became a frequent traveller to the Netherlands, visiting The Hague, Dordrecht and Domburg and producing numerous b..../b Their parents, Edward and Rena Coen, both Jewish, were professors, their father an observent Jew and an economist at the University of Minnesota and their mother an art historian at bSt/b. Cloud State University. b.../b
