The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Greatorex, Eliza

GREATOREX, Eliza, an American artist, born at Manor Hamilton, Connaught, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1820. She is the daughter of the Rev. J. C. Pratt, a Wesleyan minister. When 19 years old she came to the United States, and married Henry W. Greatorex, the son of the organist of Westminster abbey. From 1854 to 1856 she studied landscape painting with W. W. Witherspoon of New York, and then visited England and Ireland, making drawings of lake scenery. In 1862 she studied under Edouard Lambinet in Paris, and afterward sketched along the Rhine. She went again to Europe in 1866, and made pen-and-ink drawings in England, Holland, Germany, Italy, and Paris. In 1868-'9 she made pen-and-ink drawings of the old buildings in and around New York. In 1870 she returned to Europe and studied landscape and architectural drawing in Munich, where she published in 1872 “The Homes of Oberammergau” (New York, 1873), a series of 20 etchings from pen-and-ink sketches, with notes from her diary. In 1873 she published “Summer Etchings in Colorado,” with 21 illustrations, and an album of “Etchings in Nuremberg.” Her best known oil paintings are a “View on the Housatonic” (1863), “The Forge” (1864), and “Somerindyke House” (1869).