Walter Greaves (1846-1930)
A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY WALTER GREAVES GIVEN TO PUGH & CO COAL MERCHANTS, CREMONE WHARF (Lots 20-23)
Walter Greaves (1846-1930)

Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

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Walter Greaves (1846-1930)
Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
signed 'W Greaves' (upper left)
pencil, watercolour and oil on paper
8 ½ x 7 1/8 in. (21.5 x 18.1 cm.)
來源
given by the artist, in lieu of payment, to Pugh & Co Coal Merchants, Cremorne Wharf, Chelsea, and thence by descent.

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Greaves and his brother Harry met Whistler in 1863 when he moved to 7 Lindsey Row, only two doors away from the Greaves’s house. Nearby neighbours included Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne. The brothers soon became enthralled with the cosmopolitan American, working as his studio assistants, buying his art supplies, and preparing his canvasses and pigments. Walter and Henry Greaves had begun painting at an early age, choosing local Chelsea views as their subject matter and often working and signing their pictures together. Walter focussed on the composition and Henry’s talent was in the details.

Walter Greaves later recalled that he ‘lost my head over Whistler when I first met him and saw his painting’, and as Gordon Fleming notes ‘Whistler’s domination over the brothers was total. They even tried to look like him. they wore hats, ties and gloves like his, and they grew little moustaches’ (G. Fleming, James Abbott McNeil Whistler: A Life, New York, 1991, p. 100). Whistler also influenced Greaves’s technique away from a tight, detailed style to a much looser, bolder method.

There are several known portraits of Whistler by Greaves, but the work presented here is unusual in that it is executed on paper rather than on canvas, and may have been a study for one of the larger portraits.

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