Walter Greaves, who began life as the son of a Chelsea boat builder and was initially trained as a shipwright and boatman, was a painter, etcher, and topographical draftsman. As an artist he was essentially self-taught until the early 1860s, when he and his brother Henry (1844-1904) met <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/james-abbott-mcneill-whistler">James Abbott McNeil Whistler</a> (1834-