ATKINSON GRIMSHAW

A study of the paintings of Leeds artist Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93) whose images of wet streets bare branches on winter afternoons moon-lit nights and gaslit docksides are well known. The author assesses the artists place in Victorian art and society and compares him with his contemporaries such as Tissot and Alma-Tadema. Some of Grimshaws paintings which are normally in private collections are reproduced here for the first time.