I came across a series of Rootchat postings about members of a Green family in which I found some highly relevant information (provided by "Valda") regarding John and Harriet Green whose several children were baptized at St. Botolphs, Bishopsgate. Two of the children in the list were Edward Frederick Green born in 1801 and James Moring Green born in 1805.
I am wondering if this EFG is the competent painter who exhibited many times in London, and painted a portrait of Maltilda Graham in 1934. This is relevant because her fiance, according to the auctioneers, was James Moring Green, i.e. perhaps EFG's brother).
Auction houses give the birthyear for the EFG in which I am interested as 1767 and his death year as 1850 or sometimes 1851. The birth year seems highly unlikely because that would have made him 73 at his marriage to Catherine Colonna Stilon of Malta in 1840, and 57 years old when he first exhibited at the Royal Academy (he exhibited in London between 1824 and 1851, the last posthumous). the 1801 date makes much more sense. He lived at various London addresses, and also in Malta for a time. and is said to have travelled widely (information by auctioneers who may be copying from each other).
The Richard Lee, also in the Valda entry, was baptized at St. Botolph's in 1798, and was apparently oldest child of John and Harriet Green. He is likely to the the same man who contributed notes to the book "Sketches of the war in Greece" published in 1827. That the painter EFG should have been a brother of Richard Lee Green makes sense, because of a painting of Athens and Greek Street scenes, as well as a "Young woman in Greek Dress" (auctioned by Sotheby's some time ago).
I would like to find out more about this family. EFG probably had no descendants because his wife
died in London in 1845 of rapid consumption (according to a publsihed death notice), and their two young children who, according to family lore, also died in childhood.
Three weeks after his wife's death EFG sold all his paintings and copies of old masters as well as curiosities at an auction without reserve prices due to progressing to India (according to an announcement I found on the web). There he painted portraits and exotic pictures (Indian Snake Charmer), he was in Malta in 1848 for his father-in-law's funeral (funeral description). I have found no death notice for EFG, nor have I found out definitively what happened to his children, Melita Jane and Ellen. They were still alive in 1847 and probably 1848, because they are listed in their grandfather's will (Joseph Stilon, also Guiseppen Maria Stilon, who has an interesting biography).
According to a list of exhibitors at the Royal Academy of Arts (vol.3), EFG lived at 13 New Bond Street in 1824; at 65 Upper Charlotte Street in 1826; at 16 Howland Street in 1828 and 1829; at Upper Gloucester pl. in 1837; at Strada Mercante in Valletta, Malta in 1840 and 1841; at 2 Titchfield Terrace in St. John's Wood in 1843; in Bombay in 1846; and at 17 Nottingham Street in 1951. Auction houses state, EFG travelled widely which makes sense, but the origin of the information is a mystery.
EFG painted a portrait of his wife's sister, my husband's ancestor, and the reason for my interest. Any information re EFG would be of interest. It's hard for us to go and look for it in libraries, given we now live in the USA.
