WALTER GREAVES (BRITISH 1846-1930)
Flooded Cloister
signed and dated '73 (lower left)
watercolour
23.5 x 18.5 cm

Following his father's footsteps (his father was Thames boatman to J.M.W. Turner), Walter Greaves introduced Whistler to the Thames. He spent his latter years in obscurity despite the support of Walter Sickert, Augustus John and William Nicholson.