Sullivan operetta Patience pokes fun at the Aesthetic movement, and the lead character of Reginald Bunthorne is often identified as a send-up of Oscar Wilde, though Bunthorne is more likely an amalgam of several prominent artists, writers, and Aesthetic figures. Bunthorne wears a monocle and has prominent white streaks in his dark hair, as did Whistler. Novelist Henry James "had become well enough acquainted with Whistler to base several fictional characters on the 'queer little Londonized Southerner,' most notably in Roderick Hudson and The Tragic Muse". Whistler "also appeared as one of Henry James's most attractive minor characters, the sculptor Gloriani in The Ambassadors, whose personality, way of life, and even home are closely based on Whistler." George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby has a character, Joe Sibley, "the idle apprentice," who was meant to depict Whistler."James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow "Whistler threatened to sue, and in subsequent editions the character was replaced by another." Whistler was also the model for a character in Marcel Proust's novel, In Search of Lost Time — the painter Elstir.Dorment and MacDonald, Whistler, p. 22. Whistler was the favorite artist of singer and actress Doris Day. She owned and displayed an original etching of Whistler's Rotherhithe and two of his original lithographs, The Steps, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris and The Pantheon, from the Terrace of the Luxembourg Gardens. The house in which Whistler was born is now preserved as the Whistler House Museum of Art. He is buried at St Nicholas Church, Chiswick. Honors Whistler achieved worldwide recognition during his lifetime: 1884: elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. 1892: made an officer of the Légion d'honneur in France. 1898: became a charter member and first president, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. A statue of James McNeill Whistler by Nicholas Dimbleby was erected in 2005 at the north end of Battersea Bridge on the River Thames in the United Kingdom. Gallery Auction records On October 27, 2010, Swann Galleries set a record price for a Whistler print at auction, when Nocturne, an etching and drypoint printed in black on warm, cream Japan paper, 1879–80 sold for $282,000. See also John Wharlton Bunney Western painting Notes References Also published New York: Todtri Productions Limited. . Snodin, Michael and John Styles. Design & The Decorative Arts, Britain 1500–1900. V&A Publications: 2001. Spencer, Robin