The New International Encyclopædia/Greatorex, Eliza (Pratt)

GREATOREX, grāt′ō̇-rĕks, Eliza (Pratt) (1820-97). An American artist, born at Manor Hamilton, Ireland. She came to New York in 1840, and in 1849 married Henry W. Greatorex, the organist and composer. She studied art in New York in 1854-56, and in Paris in 1862. At first she produced many landscape paintings, but afterwards devoted herself to etching and to pen-and-ink work. In 1868 she was elected an associate of the National Academy. About that time she began a series of sketches of historic buildings and scenes in and around New York. She was in Germany in 1870, and in the following year, where she published The Homes of Oberammergau. Returning to the United States, she published: Summer Etchings in Colorado (1873), and Old New York from the Battery to Bloomingdale (1876).