John Atkinson Grimshaw was a British painter best known for his poetic ... such as his 1879 painting Spirit of the Night . His paintings are in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the ...

The association between the night and romanticism is as old as humanity itself ... of mystique and even danger. Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw’s nocturnal works perfectly encapsulate the ...

Today his oil paintings fetch up to £500,000 but a new exhibition reveals how Victorian master John Atkinson Grimshaw's artistic ambitions left him destitute. In his early twenties and with no ...