Green was born at
Halesowen, near
Birmingham, where his family owned a small property, and was apprenticed to Baskerville, the Birmingham printer. He was chiefly occupied in painting trays and boxes, but soon developed a love of painting and drawing. His specialty lay in flower and fruit pieces, some of the former being imitations of
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and
Jan van Huysum. Later in life he took to
landscape painting with some success. His residence at Halesowen brought him the friendship of
William Shenstone, the poet, and of
George, lord Lyttelton, both being neighbours. With another neighbour at
Hagley, Anthony Deane, he became so intimate that he was received into his family as one of its members, and moved with them to
Bergholt in
Suffolk, and eventually to
Bath. He was a good
landscape gardener. In 1760 he sent two paintings of fruit to the first exhibition of the
Incorporated Society of Artists, and exhibited again in 1763 and 1765. On 8 September 1796 he married at
Bridlington Miss Lister, a native of
York. He eventually settled at Bridlington, but thenceforth did little important work in painting, spending time in sketching tours with his wife. He died at York on 10 June 1807, in his seventy-third year. He was buried at
Fulford, and a monument to his memory was put up in
St Mary, Castlegate at York. His widow published a memoir of him after his death, to which a portrait, engraved by W. T. Fry from a drawing by R. Hancock, is prefixed. ==Works==