藝術家Eliza Pratt GREATOREX (1820-1897) 生平簡歷

出生地： Manor Hamilton, Ireland

死亡地点： Paris, France

地址： NYC, 1858-86, with travel to Europe, 1862, 1870-73, 1879-81; Paris, from 1886

职业： Landscape & cityscape painter, etcher, illustrator, teacher

教育： after 1858, with William W. Wotherspoon and James M. and William Hart, NYC; and later in Paris with Lambinet, 1862; Karl von Piloty, Munich; copied Old Masters at the Pinakothek, Munich, 1870; etching with Charles Henri Toussaint, 1879, Paris

展出： NAD, 20 annuals, 1862-84; Brooklyn AA, 1864-80; Washington AA; PAFA, 1862, 1869; Boston Athenaeum; Ind. Expo., Louisville, 1875; Centenniel Exhib. Phila., 1876 (eighteen sketches); Ind. Expo, Chicago, 1876; Expo Universelle, Paris, 1878; Paris Salon, etchings, 1881, 1888, 1890, 1894; NY Etching Cl., 1880; Exhibition of American Etchings, BMFA, 1881; Woman Etchers of America, NYC, 1888; Ohio Valley Ind. Expo, 1888; AWCS

会员： ANA, 1869 (third woman so elected); Artists Fund Soc.; Ladies' AA; AWCS; Brooklyn AA; Phila. Soc. Artists; NY Etching Cl.

工作： MMA; BMFA (etchings)

评论： NÈe Eliza Pratt. She came to NYC with her family in 1840 and in 1849 married Henry W. Greatorex (1816-58), a prominent musician of NYC. After his death in 1858, Eliza Greatorex became a professional artist, opening a studio on Broadway in NYC, later moving to one on Fifth Avenue, where she also taught art. She was best known for her views of NYC, producing several collotype-illustrated portfolios of her pen and ink drawings (including Old New York, from the Battery to Bloomingdale," 1875). She sketched in Colorado during the summer of 1873. Began making etchings about this time, soon excelling at the medium as she recorded views of NYC and her travels to Oberammergau, Germany; England; Italy; and Algiers. In 1882 she set up a studio in NYC, and later bought a farmhouse in Cragsmoor, NY, c.1883/84 (she and her daughters taught there during summers). During her later years she spent much of her time in Europe with her two daughters, Kathleen Honora Greatorex (born 1851) and Elizabeth Eleanor Greatorex (born 1854), both of whom became artists (see entries on each). Author: Summer Etchings in Colorado, 1873 (diary and etchings).

来源： G&W; Thieme-Becker; CAB; Clement and Hutton; N.Y. Daily Tribune, Feb. 11, 1897, obit.; Am. Art Review (1881), Part II, 12-13; Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD; Rutledge, PA; Swan, BA; Washington AA Cat., 1859; Portfolio (Dec. 1942), 87, repro. More recently, see Rubinstein Am.n Women Artists 71-72; P&H Samuels, 193; Peet, Am. Women of the Etching Revival, 57-58; Fink, Am. Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 348; Cragsmoor Artists' Vision of Nature, exh. brochure (Cragsmoor Free Library, NY, 1977)"