John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
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John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

View of Leeds from Woodhouse Ridge

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John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
View of Leeds from Woodhouse Ridge
signed and dated 'Atkinson Grimshaw 1868+' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with scratching out on card, stamped with blind stamp
10¾ x 17½ in. (27.3 x 44.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Jeremy Maas, London, 1968.
Exhibited
Leeds, City Art Gallery and Temple Newsam House, Atkinson Grimshaw, October-November 1979, no. 20.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The present watercolour is not only a remarkably early view of Leeds, but is also a rare example of Grimshaw's work in watercolour, a medium he used in an important experimental phase of his development, largely confined to the 1860s. Grimshaw was influenced by the work of John William Inchbold (1830-1888), one of the first Pre-Raphaelite landscape artists, and this drew him towards Ruskin and his writings, such as Modern Painters, in which Ruskin encouraged fidelity to nature enhanced through the use of photography.

We are grateful to Alex Robertson for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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