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Details
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Dimensions
- 11.2 x 22.5 cm platemark; 19.0 x 29.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "W. Greaves". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Hendrik Kolenberg 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 146.2013
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Walter Greaves
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About
GREAVES, a painter and etcher, was a disciple of Whistler for about twenty years from the sixties to the early 1880s. His father was a Chelsea boat-builder who had been J.M.W. Turner’s boatman. Many of his drawings and etchings show the absorption of Whistler’s teachings and offer a charming record of 19th century Chelsea. Greaves’s later years were spent in obscurity following accusations that he had plagiarized Whistler’s work.
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Provenance
Hendrik Kolenberg, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Gift of Hendrik Kolenberg 2013. Purchased by Kolenberg 1970s