John Atkinson Grimshaw was a British painter best known for his poetic nocturnal landscapes that showcased both urban and rural Victorian-era Britain. Grimshaw was influenced as a young artist by the ...

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.

John Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds and is famous for his autumnal, twilight landscape paintings of areas of Yorkshire.

Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight runs at the Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, London. EC2P 2EJ, from 19 September 2011 to 15 January 2012.

In his early twenties and with no professional training, John Atkinson Grimshaw decided ditch his job as a railway clerk to make a living from his art.

Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight runs at the Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, London. EC2P 2EJ, from 19 September 2011 to 15 January 2012.Credit: John Atkinson Grimshaw, Ferens Art ...

John Atkinson Grimshaw was a Victorian artist who became famous for his sombre views of the dockyards and his nocturnal scenes of urban lanes with leafless trees silhouetted against the moonlight sky.

On 19 September a major new exhibition, Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight, opens at the Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheatre in London.