IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 27 MAY 2024 AT 6PM

20 9 John Atkinson Grimshaw (British, 1836-1893) SCARBOROUGH HARBOUR oil on card laid on panel 10 by 19in. (25.4 by 48.3cm) Frame Size: 13 by 22in. (33 by 55.9cm) Provenance: Alexander Galleries, London, 1977; Private collection Exhibited: Alexander Galleries, London, 1976 John Atkinson Grimshaw was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes He was called a “remarkable and imaginative painter” by the critic and historian Christopher Wood in Victorian Painting (1999). He was born on 6 September 1836 in a back-to-back house in Park Street, Leeds. In 1856 he married his cousin Frances Hubbard. In 1861, at the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he left his job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to become a painter.. He first exhibited in 1862, mostly paintings of birds, fruit, and blossom, under the patronage of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He and his wife moved in 1866 to a semi-detached villa, which is now numbered 56 Cliff Road in Headingley and has a Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque, and in 1870 to Knostrop Old Hall. He became successful in the 1870s and rented a second home, Castle-by-the-Sea in Scarborough. Scarborough became a favourite subject. €80,000-€120,000 (£68,380-£102,560 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot9