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拍品專文
In the present work, vessels are shown lying off Hays Wharf on the south side of the river, with the Customs House and the Galley, Chester and Brewers Quays shown to the right. In the background we can see New London Bridge (please see lot 120).
John Atkinson Grimshaw was the son of an ex-policeman who began painting while working as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway. It was not until after his marriage in 1858 to Theodosia Hubbarde that he was able to devote himself entirely to painting. By 1870 he had been sufficiently successful to rent Knostrop Old Hall, a 17th century mansion near Temple Newsam, which features in many of his pictures. In the late 1870s he built a house near Scarborough and then rented a studio in Chelsea in the 1880s from where he painted many of his London scenes. His works were mainly private commissions and were therefore rarely exhibited. He focused on urban subjects, mostly in the cities of Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Scarborough, Whitby and London. It is his moonlit town views that are the subject of his most renowned works, although he also painted landscapes, portraits, interiors, fairy pictures and neo-classical subjects.
John Atkinson Grimshaw was the son of an ex-policeman who began painting while working as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway. It was not until after his marriage in 1858 to Theodosia Hubbarde that he was able to devote himself entirely to painting. By 1870 he had been sufficiently successful to rent Knostrop Old Hall, a 17th century mansion near Temple Newsam, which features in many of his pictures. In the late 1870s he built a house near Scarborough and then rented a studio in Chelsea in the 1880s from where he painted many of his London scenes. His works were mainly private commissions and were therefore rarely exhibited. He focused on urban subjects, mostly in the cities of Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Scarborough, Whitby and London. It is his moonlit town views that are the subject of his most renowned works, although he also painted landscapes, portraits, interiors, fairy pictures and neo-classical subjects.