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WALTER GREAVES (1846-1930)
Weekes' Yard, Chelsea Wharf (c. 1880 United Kingdom)
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| Item Stock Code |
706 |
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| Item Medium Description |
Pen and ink and grisaille wash |
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| Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details |
Signed |
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| European Dimensions |
19.50 cm wide 26.00 cm high |
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| UK/USA Converted Dimensions |
7.68 inches wide 10.24 inches high |
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| Item Description / Dealer Expertise |
The son of a Chelsea boat-builder, he and his brother Henry ferried Whistler on the Thames. Already an amateur artist and when he first met Whistler in 1863, he and Henry became his unpaid studio assistants and pupils. Whistler’s was an influence and friendship that was to effect the rest of his life leading him to produce not only Whistlerian oils and portraits but a wonderful series of watercolours and drawings recording the streets and river life of a changing Chelsea. His reputation was established by an exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in 1911 although his fame was short lived and, rejected by Whistler, he died in the poorhouse in 1930. |
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| GREAVES |
Walter Greaves is well known for his landscapes and river scenes. He was the son of a Chelsea boat-builder who used to ferry JMW Turner across the River Thames. Walter and his brother Harry Greaves also performed this service for James Abbott MacNeil Whistler, and in about 1863 became his unpaid studio assistants and pupils. They adored Whistler, and accompanied him wherever he went, imitated his dress and manner, made the frames for his canvases, bought his materials and prepared his pigments. Their close friendship lasted well into the 1890’s.
Whistler favoured Walter, for he was a gifted draughtsman. He had painted and drawn memorable views of the Thames at Chelsea long before they had met and these works are now considered by many to be the greatest primitive painting produced in England. Under the spell of Whistler, Greaves’s work changed significantly. His drawings reveal an enforced sophistication, much like Whistler’s own. When Greaves fell into poverty in his old age, he tore the canvases from their frames to use them as firewood. Some of these abandoned canvases were so alike Whistler’s they were mistaken for his own. |
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Please email or call +44 (0)20-7602 1959 for more information or to purchase this item. |
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FOR SALE |
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