From his Cheyne Walk yard above Battersea Bridge, the boatbuilder Charles Greaves rented out boats to many artists including JMW Turner. His sons Walter and Henry were self-taught painters producing hundreds of topographical drawings of their native streets. On meeting Whistler in 1863, Walter became infatuated with his artistic persona and style, later ending up in poverty after Whistler's biographers accused him of plagiarising the master.