A little ditty I wrote a while back that very much applies to today-
John Atkinson Grimshaw Weeks at TechnoChitlins

John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was an English Victorian-era artist who has been called a “remarkable and imaginative painter”[1] best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes[2][3]
Today, he is considered one of the most renowned painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape, and townscape, artists of all time.
Grimshaw’s accuracy and drive for realism was criticised by some contemporaries, with one critic claiming that his paintings appeared to ‘showed no marks of handling or brushwork’, adding that ‘not a few artists were doubtful whether they could be accepted as paintings at all’. However, other contemporaries recognised his mastery of lighting and technique, and James McNeill Whistler, whom Grimshaw would go on to work with in his Chelsea studios, stated, “I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes until I saw Grimmy’s moonlit pictures”.
Light!
Oh, the light!
Girls Lightened By Sun 1901

Portrait Of Empress Marina

The Artist And The Apprentice

Portrait Of A Man Sitting On A Park Bench 1917

Study To January 9 1905 On Vasilyevsky Island- 1907

Market In Poltava

His First Suit

A Peasant 1897

Apologies
Wow. Six days without a post- WordPress let me down and I didn’t catch it! Posting should resume noon today, unless I have a bigger problem…

Iconographer 1891

Declaration Of Love 1891

Peasant Children 1890

Two Pilgrims 1885


