Today his oil paintings fetch up to £500,000 but a new exhibition reveals how Victorian master John Atkinson Grimshaw's artistic ambitions left him destitute. In his early twenties and with no ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, no Merseyside living room was complete without a framed reproduction of one of John Atkinson Grimshaw's scenes of Liverpool docks. The Victorian artist was much loved ...

[See also: How Valerius de Saedeleer brought Belgian art to Wales] Grimshaw’s story is itself a very Victorian, Dickensian one: he was an artist from the north of England who transcended unpromising ...

Atkinson Grimshaw's beautiful and evocative paintings of moonlit suburban lanes, gas-lit city streets and docksides have emerged as some of the most popular works of the Victorian age. This ...

Grimshaw’s evocative Victorian scenes still continue to resonate with the viewer to this day, with Master Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro citing that Grimshaw’s paintings had a profound influence ...

In recent years we have seen an upsurge in interest in Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist art and the success of our sales ... John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton, John ...

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The much-anticipated return of paintings by John Atkinson Grimshaw, the Leeds-born artist with a special connection to Scarborough, has formed an exhibition at the town’s art gallery. Since they ...

Atkinson Grimshaw's beautiful and evocative paintings of moonlit suburban lanes, gas-lit city streets and docksides have emerged as some of the most popular works of the Victorian age. This ...