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1Career
2Works
3Children
4Notes
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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.
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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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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.