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“... when it came to making a living. It could also push a painter into becoming a bored specialist. If Atkinson Grimshaw hadn’t found that it was the moonlight scenes over water which sold best, he surely wouldn’t have stuck to them – there are 14 of them here. Sargent got bored with portraits, but had made enough money to free himself of the burden of ...”

“... of examples sharply declines, and the final painting is a melancholy view of a Jacobean house by Atkinson Grimshaw. As the author argues, in the 19th century demand fell away as collected engraved or lithographed views of country seats replaced specially commissioned paintings, and after 1870 the tradition died owing to photography and the economic ...”

“... of the city that had me in thrall, which might seem eccentric, except that the Victorian painter Atkinson Grimshaw had found the same in the streets of Leeds, so I was in good company. When I came home and filled my notebooks with descriptions of the sunset, treating it as if it were an ideal landscape and the clouds an alternative world, there ...”

“... they ceased to be sexual creatures. Perhaps the most interesting of the later paintings is John Atkinson Grimshaw’s Iris of 1886. Grimshaw is chiefly associated with views of gaslit city streets on foggy evenings, rendering light with a meticulously imprecise touch. He also developed a popular line in misty autumn ...”