The Lady Of Shalott

Title

The Lady Of Shalott

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Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"The Lady of Shalott"

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (English, 1836-1893)

Title: The Lady of Shalott

Object Type: Painting

Date: 1875

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 610 mm (24.01 in); Width: 914 mm (35.98 in)

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven CT USA

Inscriptions: Signed and dated in ocher paint, lower right: "Atkinson Grimshaw

Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew

John Atkinson Grimshaw was an English Victorian-era artist now best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes.

Today, he is considered one of the great painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape, and townscape, artists of all time. He was called a "remarkable and imaginative painter" by the critic and historian Christopher Wood in Victorian Painting.

Grimshaw's accuracy and attention to realism was criticised by some of his 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 worked with in his Chelsea studios, stated, “I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes until I saw Grimmy’s moonlit pictures”.

His early paintings were signed "JAG", "J. A. Grimshaw", or "John Atkinson Grimshaw", though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw".

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

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Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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