GREATOREX GALLERY
Arthur Greatorex was born in Walworth, Surrey on 14 July 1866, younges ot the seven children of William Joseph Greatorex and his wife Eliza née Mills (1823-), who married at St George Southwark in 1846. In 1871 the family were living at 7 Arthur Street, Battersea and were still at the same address in 1881 when Arthur was employed as a tin-plate worker. On 3 December 1887, Arthur married at the parish church of St. Ann in South Lambeth, Ada Fanny Young, daughter of James and Mary Young. Arthur and Fanny started their married life at 27 Bonnington Square in Kennington and their son Hubert Hedley was born in Brixton on 3 October the following year. In 1891 Arthur was living at 59 Hubert Grove in Stockwell, when Arthur was a Fine Art assistant working for the Dowdeswell Gallery. By 1907 Arthur, now a picture dealer, had started to travel by ship to America in pursuit of business and in 1916, opened his own gallery at 14 Grafton Street on the corner with Dover Street in London W1 and Queen Mary was one of his patrons. He put on several exhibitions for artists, including Winifred Austen and acted as her agent, advertising limited editions of her works at £4.4s.0d each, other Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Greatorex Gallery include Samuel John Lamorna Birch and Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion and another female exhibitor was Beatrice Emma Parsons (1870-1955). Arthur and his wife Ada continued living at the house at 16 Clairview Road, Streatham, Surrey until Ada's death in 1927. When Arthur sailed to New York in March 1928, he gave his address as 7 Clapton Square, and in 1928 Arthur married in Wandsworth, Maud Greaves. Arthur, who travelled frequently to the U.S.A., was a member of the Fine Art Trade Guild and published several engravings. He was still at Grafton Street and the last exhibition noted is of the bird paintings of Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1901-1979) in May 1938. Maud died in Rayleigh, Essex on 26 May 1951 and Arthur Greatorex died at 21 Brook View Road, Streatham on 27 February 1952.