Greatorex, Eleanor, 1854-1908

LC control no.	nr 89013853
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Greatorex, Eleanor, 1854-1908 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Greatorex, Eleanor Elizabeth, 1854-1908 Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor, 1854-1908 Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor, b. 1854 Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor, 1854-
See also	Teacher: Greatorex, Eliza, 1819-1897 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated place	Germany Cragsmoor (N.Y.) Algiers (Algeria)
Located	New York (N.Y.) Paris (France)
Birth date	1854-03-26
Death date	1908-04-18
Place of birth	Hoboken (N.J.) New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Paris (France) Moret-sur-Loing (France)
Field of activity	Painting Watercolor painting Mural painting and decoration China painting Etching Illustration of books Magazine illustration Art--Study and teaching
Affiliation	New York Etching Club National Academy of Design (U.S. : 1828-1997) Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Société des artistes français. Salon
Profession or occupation	Painters Watercolorists Muralists China painters Etchers Illustrators Art teachers
Found in	Abbott, John S.C. Christopher Carson, 1874, via HathiTrust, March 22, 2021: title page (with illustrations by Eleanor Greatorex) illustrations (signed: Eleanor Greatorex, 1873) Appletons' cyclopaedia of Amer. biog., 1888 (Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor; artist; b. 5/26/1854) MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor, b. 1854) Hoffmann, Heinrich. Prince Greenwood and Pearl-of-Price, 1874: title page (illustrated by Eleanor Greatorex) "Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, March 22, 2021 (Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor; further names: Greatorex, Eleanor; gender: female; occupation: painter; born Hoboken, N.J., 1854; died Paris, 1917 [sic]) Manthorne, Katherine. "Greatorex, Eliza Pratt," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, v. 61 (2009), page 133; accessed via Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, March 22, 2021: (Eliza Pratt Greatorex, active throughout her life an art teacher, also instructed her daughters, Kathleen Honora Greatorex and Eleanor Elizabeth Greatorex (the latter born 1854 Hoboken/N.J., died 1897 [sic] Paris), who were also active as painters) "Greatorex, Eleanor," in Benezit dictionary of artists, 2011, accessed online via Oxford Art Online, 22 March 2021 (Greatorex, Eleanor, American, 19th-20th century, female; born 1854, died 1917 [sic]; painter; "Eleanor Greatorex was the daughter of Eliza Greatorex. She began by exhibiting views and then concentrated on painting on porcelain") Smithsonian American Art Museum website, March 22, 2021 (Eleanor Greatorex; also known as Elizabeth Eleanor Greatorex, Eliza Greatorex; born New York City, 1854-died 1917 [sic], Paris; painter, illustrator, and a member of the New York Etching Club; exhibited a few paintings of flowers and women, which were shown in Paris; her mother and teacher was Eliza Pratt Greatorex) <https://americanart.si.edu/artist/eleanor-greatorex-1921> Masten, April F. "Greatorex, Eleanor Elizabeth (1854-1897), artist," in American National Biography; published in print 1999; published online February 2000; retrieved March 22, 2021 (Greatorex, Eleanor Elizabeth (26 March 1854-1897 [sic]), artist, was born in New York City, the daughter of Eliza Pratt Greatorex, an artist, and Henry Wellington Greatorex; began her formal art training with her mother at age seven; also studied at the National Academy of Design in 1869-1870 and later at the Art Students League; worked in panel painting, china decorating, illustration, and teaching; also produced oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, and murals; traveled in Europe with her mother in early 1870s, and afterwards opened a studio in New York with her sister Kathleen, where teaching provided their chief source of income; in 1876, began exhibiting and selling her work at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Brooklyn Art Association; won honorable mention for pictures exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition; returned to Paris with her mother and sister in 1879, and lived in Algiers, 1880-1881; again in New York in 1882, the family opened a studio in the Sherwood Building; the sisters spent summers with their mother at Cragsmoor in Ulster County; exhibited at various venues, including the New York Water-Color Exhibition of 1882; commissioned with her sister to decorate the ladies' reception room at the Dakota apartment house in New York, 1884; the Greatorexes settled permanently in Paris in 1886; Eleanor Greatorex exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1888, 1889, and 1890, and her etchings appeared at the second Women Etchers of America exhibition, New York, 1888; died in Paris the same year as her mother) Manthorne, Katherine. Restless enterprise, 2020: page 1 (Eliza Pratt Greatorex ... her daughters, Kathleen Honora Greatorex (1851-1942) and Eleanor Elizabeth Greatorex (1854-1908) page 278 (Eleanor died in 1908 at age 54; Kathleen then carried on alone in France) New-York Tribune, 22 April 1908, via Newspapers.com, March 22, 2021: page 7 ("Died: ... Greatorex, Eleanor E. ... Greatorex: at Moret, France, on April 18, 1908, Eleanor Elizabeth, daughter of the late Henry W. and Eliza Greatorex") OCLC, March 22, 2021 (access points: Greatorex, Eleanor; Greatorex, Eleanor E.; Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor; Greatorex, Elizabeth Eleanor, 1854-; usage: Eleanor Greaterex)
Associated language	eng