Artist John Atkinson Grimshaw was an inspired painter of urban gas-lit scenes and pastorals. Glasgow Docks is Grimshaw at his best; the damp evening on a cobble-stoned street is warmed by the lights of row-houses in a charming scene that also nods to Britain’s industrial and technological power.
Glasgow Docks, c.1881, Oil on CanvasJohn Atkinson Grimshaw British (1836 - 1893) |
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Artist John Atkinson Grimshaw was an inspired painter of urban gas-lit scenes and pastorals. Glasgow Docks is Grimshaw at his best; the damp evening on a cobble-stoned street is warmed by the lights of row-houses in a charming scene that also nods to Britain’s industrial and technological power. |
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