Eliza Pratt Greatorex

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Portrait of Eliza Pratt Greatorex

Eliza Pratt Greatorex (December 25, 1819 February 9, 1897) was an American artist born
in Manorhamilton, Ireland. She was the first woman to be elected an associate of the National Academy
of Design.

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1Career

2Works

3Children

4Notes

5References

Career[edit]
She was the daughter of Reverend James Calcott Pratt, and came to New York in 1840, where in 1849
she married Henry Wellington Greatorex.[citation needed] She had two daughters: Eleanor
Greatorex and Kathleen Greatorex, both who would grow up to become artists and work with their
mother.[1]

Subsequently she studied art with William H. Witherspoon and James Hart in New York, with mile
Lambinet in Paris, and also at the Pinakothek in Munich. During 1879 she studied etching with C. Henri
Toussaint. In 1857 she visited England, and spent 18611862 in Paris. She was also abroad in 1870
1873, visiting Nuremberg and Ober-Ammergau, Germany, and various parts of Italy.
In 1868 she was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, being the first woman who
received that recognition, and was also a member of the Artists' Fund Society of New York. She died
in Paris.

Works[edit]

Bay of Naples, Italy, etching by Eliza Pratt Greatorex

Although she began as a landscape painter, Greatorex later devoted herself to pen-and-ink sketches,
many of which appeared in book form. It was through these sketches that she acquired her reputation.
Notable among her books were The Homes of Ober-Ammergau (Munich, 1872); Summer Etchings in
Colorado (New York, 1873); Etchings in Nuremberg (1875); and Old New York from the Battery to the
Bloomingdale (1876), the text of which was prepared by her sister, Matilda P. Despard.
Eighteen of the sketches illustrative of New York were exhibited at the Centennial exhibition in
Philadelphia in 1876. Her large pen-drawing of "Durer's House in Nuremberg" is in the Vatican, Rome.
Among her paintings are View on the Housatonic (1863); The
Forge (1864); Bloomingdale (1868); Chateau of Madame Oliffe (1869); Somerindyke
House (1869); Bloomingdale Church, painted on a panel taken from the North Dutch Church, Fulton
Street; St. Paul's Church and The North Dutch Church, each painted on panels taken from these
Churches (1876); Normandy (1882); and The Home of Louis Philippe in Bloomingdale, New York(1884).
Greatorex's work was exhibited in a 2010 exhibition by the Thomas Cole National Historical Site and
Hawthorne Fine Art, entitled, Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School.[2]

Children[edit]
Her daughter Kathleen Honora, born in Hoboken, New Jersey, 10 September 1851, studied art in New
York, Rome, and Munich. She devoted herself to decorative work and book illustration, and won success
as a painter, obtaining honorable mention for her work in the Paris salon of 1886. Many of her paintings
were flower-pieces: The Last Bit of Autumn (1875); Goethe's Fountain, Frankfort (1876); panels
with Thistles and Corn (1877); and Hollyhocks (1883).
Another daughter, Elizabeth Eleanor, was born in New York, 26 May 1854, and studied art in
the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League of New York, in Paris with CarolusDuran, in Munich, and in Italy. Like her sister, she decorated china, illustrated books, and painted. She
exhibited at the National Academy The Bath (1884), and Color that Burns as if no Frost could
Tame (1885).

Her son, Thomas, was born about 1850 in New York, and died in Silverton, Colorado.[citation needed]

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Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James
Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Greatorex, Henry Wellington". Appletons' Cyclopdia of American
Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Greatorex, Eliza". The American
Cyclopdia.

Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Greatorex, Eliza Pratt". Encyclopedia Americana.