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    James Abbott McNeill Whistler Personality Type, MBTI

    What is the personality type of James Abbott McNeill Whistler? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for James Abbott McNeill Whistler from Artists and what is the personality traits.

    James Abbott McNeill Whistler
    ENFP

    ENFP (4w5)

    James Abbott McNeill Whistler personality type is ENFP, which means he is an Extravert with an intuitive function. He is Extraverted Intuitive thinking type. According to the Myers-Briggs personality test he is an INFP, which is what I call ENFP personality type.

    Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834. Whistler’s father was a wealthy businessman and inventor, Henry Augustus Whistler. His family owned a successful printing firm for several generations.

    Whistler’s mother was a daughter of a wealthy family, the Bayards. That was a very large and prominent family in New England. And she died when he was six years old.

    He had a brother, John Langdon Whistler, who later became a famous painter. And he also had a sister, Mary Whistler, who became a very successful writer.

    Whistler was an only child. He had a very wealthy family and he didn’t have any problems from the beginning, from the time he was a small boy. He was different from other children but that didn’t mean that he could not make friends with other children.

    James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American artist active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

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