Private Life of a Masterpiece

James McNeill Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother is one of the most satirised paintings of all time. Yet when his sombre masterpiece was first unveiled, it was seen as a radical departure from the sentimental images beloved of the Victorians, and which Whistler loathed. First broadcast in 2004

Monday, 20 July 1 airing
21:00
BBC Four
Whistler's Mother
Wednesday, 22 July 1 airing
23:30
BBC Four
Whistler's Mother