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William Turner and James McNeill Whistler - if you can count two of England's most famous painters among your family's circle of acquaintances, you simply have to take up the art subject, even if you come from a simple working class background. Walter Greaves' father was a boat builder and pump attendant on the north bank of the Thames in Chelsea, southwest of central London on what was then the outskirts of the city. Charles Greaves also worked as a boat steersman for Thames tours, and one of his regular customers for boat tours was the well-known nature and landscape painter William Turner, who achieved many a painting object in this way.
Turner probably also awakened Walter Greaves' interest in art; at the age of sixteen he and his brother Henry met another young, aspiring painter - the later famous James McNeill Whistler, who had moved from France to England five years earlier and was also interested in the banks of the Thames. "He taught us painting, and we taught him the craft of the pump master," Greaves would later say.
Under Whistler's guidance, Greaves practiced portraits, created landscapes such as "The Bridge of Hammersmith on Boat Race Day" - where the bridge itself is barely visible in front of crowds of people - and helped Whistler with the decoration of the "Peacock Room", a dining room for the ship magnate Richard F. Leyland. This blue-green treasure is now in the Freer Gallery, Washington D.C. Unfortunately, the artists received little thanks for their creation - Leyland and Whistler threw themselves over for subsequently altered details and continued a feud with mutual teasing for years.
Walter Greaves' cooperation with Whistler also had no future. In the late 1870s Whistler acquired a more educated circle of friends, which the son of a worker from Chelsea could not compete with. While Whistler basked in glory, Greaves fell into oblivion - and poverty. This only changed again after 1900, when William Marchant "discovered" him, owner of the Goupil Galleries, and began exhibiting Greaves' paintings. Even slander - Whistler had died in 1903, two Whistler biographers accused Greaves of plagiarism - could not harm his reputation anymore. In 1922 Greaves was elected honorary president of the Chelsea Artists' Club. From 1855 to 1897, Greaves had only ever lived at Cheyne Walke in Chelsea.
At the age of 80, Walter Greaves sank into poverty once again and decided to spend the last years of his life as inmate of the "London Charterhouse", a kind of retirement home for impoverished gentlemen. He died in 1930 and was buried in Charterhouse Cemetery. Paintings by Walter Greaves still hang in the Tate Gallery today.
William Turner and James McNeill Whistler - if you can count two of England's most famous painters among your family's circle of acquaintances, you simply have to take up the art subject, even if you come from a simple working class background. Walter Greaves' father was a boat builder and pump attendant on the north bank of the Thames in Chelsea, southwest of central London on what was then the outskirts of the city. Charles Greaves also worked as a boat steersman for Thames tours, and one of his regular customers for boat tours was the well-known nature and landscape painter William Turner, who achieved many a painting object in this way.
Turner probably also awakened Walter Greaves' interest in art; at the age of sixteen he and his brother Henry met another young, aspiring painter - the later famous James McNeill Whistler, who had moved from France to England five years earlier and was also interested in the banks of the Thames. "He taught us painting, and we taught him the craft of the pump master," Greaves would later say.
Under Whistler's guidance, Greaves practiced portraits, created landscapes such as "The Bridge of Hammersmith on Boat Race Day" - where the bridge itself is barely visible in front of crowds of people - and helped Whistler with the decoration of the "Peacock Room", a dining room for the ship magnate Richard F. Leyland. This blue-green treasure is now in the Freer Gallery, Washington D.C. Unfortunately, the artists received little thanks for their creation - Leyland and Whistler threw themselves over for subsequently altered details and continued a feud with mutual teasing for years.
Walter Greaves' cooperation with Whistler also had no future. In the late 1870s Whistler acquired a more educated circle of friends, which the son of a worker from Chelsea could not compete with. While Whistler basked in glory, Greaves fell into oblivion - and poverty. This only changed again after 1900, when William Marchant "discovered" him, owner of the Goupil Galleries, and began exhibiting Greaves' paintings. Even slander - Whistler had died in 1903, two Whistler biographers accused Greaves of plagiarism - could not harm his reputation anymore. In 1922 Greaves was elected honorary president of the Chelsea Artists' Club. From 1855 to 1897, Greaves had only ever lived at Cheyne Walke in Chelsea.
At the age of 80, Walter Greaves sank into poverty once again and decided to spend the last years of his life as inmate of the "London Charterhouse", a kind of retirement home for impoverished gentlemen. He died in 1930 and was buried in Charterhouse Cemetery. Paintings by Walter Greaves still hang in the Tate Gallery today.
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.jpg "Gray and Silver: A Nocturne, c. 1880-1900 by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Charles Blondin crossing the Thames on a tightrope, London by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Artist by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Putney Bridge by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "James McNeill Whistler in the Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Nocturne, Old Battersea Bridge by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907700).jpg "Nocturne by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Gray and Silver: A Nocturne by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129102).jpg "Chelsea Old Church from Battersea by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Nocturne: Battersea Reach by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "James McNeill Whistler in the Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea, 1869 by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Battersea Bridge - Misty Moonlight by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Old Battersea Bridge by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Nocturne, Battersea Reach by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "James McNeill Whistler by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "An Artist Painting by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Nocturne by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Nocturne from Greaves Boat Yard by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Duke Street, Chelsea, London by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Unloading the Barge, Lindsay Jetty and Battersea Church, c.1860 by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-902582).jpg "Lindsey Wharf by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "The Black Lion, Chelsea by Night by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 1857 by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-902616).jpg "The Plumbago Factory, Battersea by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Cremorne Lights by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1131301).jpg "The Thames in Winter by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907259).jpg "Nocturne, Battersea Old Bridge, London by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Whistler Painting in His Studio by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "The Black Lion, Old Church Street, Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Old Chelsea, The Last Regatta by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-907260).jpg "Nocturne, Battersea Old Bridge, London by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "View of Thames, City Stream Company Jetty, Battersea Power Station by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "James McNeill Whistler by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1113210).jpg "Worlds End Passage, Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-900561).jpg "Chelsea Parish Church by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Portrait of James McNeill Whistler by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "James McNeill Whistler by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106221).jpg "Don Saltero")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1100492).jpg "Chelsea Dock by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "A Thames View Showing the Adam and Eve Tavern in Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1113211).jpg "The Green Man, Beaufort Street, Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "The Cricketers and the Thames Coffee House, Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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 1872 (chalk) - (MeisterDrucke-216715).jpg "Thomas Carlyle by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "The Street Singer by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106269).jpg "Church Street, Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "James Abbott McNeill Whistler on the Widow")
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.jpg "Old Battersea Bridge, c.1890 by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Lime Wharf, Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "View of the Adam and Eve Inn, Chelsea, London by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Chelsea Regatta by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106268).jpg "Chelsea, the Adam and Eve by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1122055).jpg "Eight Bells and Cheyne Walk, Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Portrait of Whistler on the Thames by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Cadogan Pier Chelsea by Walter Greaves")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1507008).jpg "Gray and Silver: A Nocturne by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "James McNeill Whistler by Walter Greaves")
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.jpg "Seven Liberal Arts by Walter Greaves")
.jpg "Swan Tavern, Battersea by Walter Greaves")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-384142).jpg "Alldins Coal Wharf and Chelsea Old Church, London by Walter Greaves")
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