Lawrence Street, Chelsea

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Walter Greaves was born in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea; the son of a boat builder and waterman. He and his brother Henry first met Whistler in 1863. In 1876, four of Walter Greaves’ works were shown at the Royal Aquarium. Greaves and Whistler parted company in 1888, after which Greaves’s career faltered but he received some recognition from 1911, when he had a solo exhibition at the London Gallery. In 1922 his painting ‘Hammersmith Bridge’ was purchased for the Tate and in the same year he had a further exhibition at the London Gallery. Greaves was elected an honorary member of the Chelsea Arts Club in 1921. He died in West London Hospital, Hammersmith, aged 84.

Places

England, London, Chelsea

Subjects

wagon, topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, flower, horse, boy, man, woman, girl, crowd, 20th century costume, military uniform, flower seller, child, police officer, arrest, signage, lamp post, shop-front, street, pavement, house, archway

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Walter Greaves (1846 - 1930)

Title

Lawrence Street, Chelsea

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 40.50 cm, width: 60.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, February 1959

Inscription

br: W.Greaves

Provenance

Collection of ‘Robert Frank’; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in March 1959

GAC number

4879