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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Greaves, Walter Creator Nationality: European; British Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1841 - 1930 Biography: Walter Greaves, who began life as the son of a Chelsea boat builder and was initially trained as a shipwright and boatman, was a painter, etcher, and topographical draftsman. As an artist he was essentially self-taught until the early 1860s, when he and his brother Henry (1844-1904) met James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1834-1903). They became Whistler's pupils, studio assistants, advisers on Thames topography, and friends for nearly two decades. Walter's earliest oil paintings are charming in their naiveté, and he produced a significant number of etchings and drawings of views in Chelsea. Under Whistler's direct tutelage, Greaves painted his most inspired pictures, "Nocturnes" or "Moonlights," in imitation of his master's most successful landscape inventions. Their relationship cooled in the 1890s, and Greaves lapsed into obscurity until rediscovered by William Marchant, owner of the prestigious Goupil Galleries. Marchant organized a major Greaves retrospective in 1911, but rather than advance the impoverished artist's reputation, it precipitated a vitriolic exchange in the press between Marchant and Whistler's biographer and champion, Joseph Pennell, who accused Greaves of deception and plagiarism. In true Whistlerian fashion, Marchant countered with an eighty-page pamphlet, A Reply to an Attack Made by One of Whistler's Biographers on a Pupil of Whistler Mr. Walter Greaves (London, 1911), but neither this elaborate defense nor the public support Greaves received from Whistler's most successful student, Walter Sickert (1860-1942), could sustain the Greaves revival. The artist died destitute as a Poor Brother of London's Charterhouse. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: London, 4 July 1846 Creator Death Place: London, 28 November 1930 Creator Name-CRT: Walter Greaves Title: Gray and Silver: A Nocturne Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1880 Creation End Date: 1900 Creation Date: c. 1880-1900 Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Dimensions: Unframed: 51cm x 58.7cm AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1964.361 Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: Sold by Messrs. Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, at the death of C. W. Dowdeswell at London sale, Christie's, 7-9 February 1917 (lot 308), W. Greaves, Grey and Silver: A Nocturne, 19½ x 13½ in., for £11:11:-: to Hugh Blaker. Bought in 1945 by Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London. Sold to Beryl Joyce. Sold by her at London sale, Christie's, 5 July 1963 (lot 15), Whistler, Nocturne in Silver and Grey, signed with butterfly, 19 x 23 in., bought in and returned to Beryl Joyce. Bought back by Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London. Sold to Durlacher Bros. New York. Purchased by the CMA in 1964. AMICA ID: CMA_.1964.361 AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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