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John Atkinson Grimshaw Scarborough South Bay by Moonlight
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John Atkinson Grimshaw Scarborough South Bay by Moonlight
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Property of a Gentleman
John Atkinson Grimshaw
British
1836 - 1893
Scarborough South Bay by Moonlight
signed and dated Atkinson Grimshaw 1878 + lower left
oil on board
Unframed: 28 by 43cm., 11 by 17in.
Framed: 63 by 78cm., 24¾ by 30¾in.
Frost & Reed, London
Private collection, UK, since circa 1950
Thence by descent to the present owner
'And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy land is before us - then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who,for once has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and master -her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her.' (James Abbott McNeill Whistler, from his Ten O'Clock Lecture, 1885)
Unlikesimilar versions of this composition the Whistlerian use of fog and haze has given way to a clear night with the moonlight shimmering on the still waters of the bay.Thiscontrasts wonderfully with thereflected lights of the human activity of the town.As Alexander Robertson observes; 'Grimshaw combines these two kinds of activity, the watching and the working, in a compositionwhich gives him an opportunity to portray different light effects, natural and man-made.Such paintings are the essence of Grimshaw, who presents to the spectator a scene of calm observation where the subject is given a poetic overlay by the use of light, usually moonlight.'
By 1878 when Grimshaw painted the present view, he knew Scarborough well having lived there for two years, paintingthe town onnumerous occasions and from a variety of perspectives.From 1876 he rented a house from Thomas Jarvis, a local brewer who was Grimshaw's patron as well as his landlord.The house was named'The Castleby the Sea'after thepoem by Longfellow. Grimshaw's twins, Lancelot and Elaine were born during his time there but sadly the familyhad to give up the house due to financial difficulties in 1880.Scarborough provided an abundance of inspiration and Grimshaw painted some of his most successful compositions during this period includinga rare documentary piece'Sic Transit Gloria Mundi' The Burning of the Spa Saloon, Scarborough(Scarborough Art Gallery).
The present work shows the old harbour at dusk, looking back across the bay to the town. Grimshaw has cleverly used the warm tone of the unpainted surface of the board to provide the glow of the last gold of the sunset on the horizon. It depicts the spa at the height of its prosperity with Cuthbert Broderick's French inspired Grand Hotel on the right of the composition towering over the suspension bridge to the left.Scarborough's economy was in transition during the second decade of the nineteenth century.The opening of the Grand Hotel in 1867 paved the way for tourism but this new prosperity came at the expense of the traditional fishing industry and thelone fishing-boat in the bay imbues the work with a sense of isolation and a melancholy that the old ways were passing into history.
John Atkinson Grimshaw
British
1836 - 1893
Scarborough South Bay by Moonlight
signed and dated Atkinson Grimshaw 1878 + lower left
oil on board
Unframed: 28 by 43cm., 11 by 17in.
Framed: 63 by 78cm., 24¾ by 30¾in.
Frost & Reed, London
Private collection, UK, since circa 1950
Thence by descent to the present owner
'And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy land is before us - then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who,for once has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and master -her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her.' (James Abbott McNeill Whistler, from his Ten O'Clock Lecture, 1885)
Unlikesimilar versions of this composition the Whistlerian use of fog and haze has given way to a clear night with the moonlight shimmering on the still waters of the bay.Thiscontrasts wonderfully with thereflected lights of the human activity of the town.As Alexander Robertson observes; 'Grimshaw combines these two kinds of activity, the watching and the working, in a compositionwhich gives him an opportunity to portray different light effects, natural and man-made.Such paintings are the essence of Grimshaw, who presents to the spectator a scene of calm observation where the subject is given a poetic overlay by the use of light, usually moonlight.'
By 1878 when Grimshaw painted the present view, he knew Scarborough well having lived there for two years, paintingthe town onnumerous occasions and from a variety of perspectives.From 1876 he rented a house from Thomas Jarvis, a local brewer who was Grimshaw's patron as well as his landlord.The house was named'The Castleby the Sea'after thepoem by Longfellow. Grimshaw's twins, Lancelot and Elaine were born during his time there but sadly the familyhad to give up the house due to financial difficulties in 1880.Scarborough provided an abundance of inspiration and Grimshaw painted some of his most successful compositions during this period includinga rare documentary piece'Sic Transit Gloria Mundi' The Burning of the Spa Saloon, Scarborough(Scarborough Art Gallery).
The present work shows the old harbour at dusk, looking back across the bay to the town. Grimshaw has cleverly used the warm tone of the unpainted surface of the board to provide the glow of the last gold of the sunset on the horizon. It depicts the spa at the height of its prosperity with Cuthbert Broderick's French inspired Grand Hotel on the right of the composition towering over the suspension bridge to the left.Scarborough's economy was in transition during the second decade of the nineteenth century.The opening of the Grand Hotel in 1867 paved the way for tourism but this new prosperity came at the expense of the traditional fishing industry and thelone fishing-boat in the bay imbues the work with a sense of isolation and a melancholy that the old ways were passing into history.