Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/walter-greaves-222" aria-label="More by Walter Greaves" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Walter Greaves</a>
Green Dress
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1931
actions: postures and motions
adults
clothing and personal items
domestic
dress
dress: fantasy/fancy
hand / hands raised
historical
historical, Elizabethan
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
Rainger, Eliza
ring
ruff
society
standing
woman
<p>Walter Greaves began as an amateur artist, drawing views of Chelsea. As a boy he worked in his father's boatyard on the Thames, and met Whistler who lived nearby. He became his assistant, and then his pupil. Greaves painted this portrait of one of his sisters as a companion to his similar full length portrait of another sister. With its use of light and shade, and the attention to detail of the elaborate dress, it is more conventional than Whistler's portraits. The unusual dress is a Victorian revival of Elizabethan fashion.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
The Green Dress
support: 1930 × 914 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1931
<p>Walter Greaves began as an amateur artist, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> views of Chelsea. As a boy he worked in his father's boatyard on the Thames, and met Whistler who lived nearby. He became his assistant, and then his pupil. </p><p>Greaves painted this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of one of his sisters as a companion to his similar full length portrait of another sister. With its use of light and shade, and the attention to detail of the elaborate dress, it is more conventional than Whistler's portraits. The unusual dress is a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/v/victorian" title="Glossary definition for 'Victorian'"><span>Victorian</span></a> revival of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/elizabethan" title="Glossary definition for 'Elizabethan'"><span>Elizabethan</span></a> fashion. </p><p></p>
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actions: postures and motions adults clothing and personal items domestic dress dress: fantasy/fancy hand / hands raised historical historical, Elizabethan individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors named individuals objects people portraits Rainger, Eliza ring ruff society standing woman