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| John Atkinson Grimshaw - A Moonlit Lane, 1874. |
Painted at the height of his career, A Moonlit Lane is a very fine example of Grimshaw's skill at capturing the mood of a still late-autumnal night, the street deserted and quietly bathed in soft moonlight. Alex Robertson refers to the work as 'Grimshaw at his best.' During the 1870s Grimshaw established his reputation as a painter of nocturnes, focusing his attention on capturing the different effects of moonlight filtered through an ever-changing cloudscape on the streets and woods around his home. Whistler, a close friend of the artist, later noted: 'I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes, until I saw Grimmy's moonlight pictures'. Via
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