Walter Greaves (artist)

[2] The American painter later used these Thames expeditions for inspiration when painting his ‘nocturne’ views of the river at night.

Greaves also drew and painted Whistler, sometimes in caricature, in Chelsea settings and in characteristic moods.

In 1876 the Greaves brothers helped Whistler decorate The Peacock Room (now in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), for the shipowner Frederick Leyland.

[1] During the late 1870s Whistler began to gather a more sophisticated group of friends about himself, including Walter Sickert and Mortimer Menpes.

[1] Despite the support of a few fellow painters, including Sickert,[6] Greaves again fell into obscurity and spent his last eight years as a Poor Brother of the London Charterhouse.