Catherine Manthorne recounts the life and work of the Irish American landscape artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex
Born in County Leitrim, Eliza Pratt was the daughter of Catherine Scott and James Calcott Pratt, a Methodist minister who moved with his family almost annually from one village to another in the north of Ireland. As a young woman, Eliza Pratt left Ireland and headed for New York. There she married British composer Henry Wellington Greatorex and had three children, simultaneously establishing herself in the lively art world of the 1850s. There were few professional women artists at the time, even fewer who were married with children and almost none who painted landscapes. Eliza Greatorex was a pioneering figure
Isabella Evangelisti visits the MAC in Belfast, where the work of selected painting graduates from Belfast School of Art is on show
