Live Auction 7417Victorian & Traditionalist Pictures
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
Lot 124THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

Eveleigh, Forge Valley

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GBP 78,000

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John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
Eveleigh, Forge Valley
signed and dated 'Atkinson Grimshaw 1877+' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed and dated 'Eveleigh/Forge Valley./No. 1877/Atkinson Grimshaw.' (on the reverse)
oil on card
11¾ x 18 in. (29.9 x 45.7 cm.)

Specialist note

Forge Valley was a popular retreat near Scarborough.

In 1877, the year this picture was painted, Grimshaw's twins, Lancelot and Elaine, named after Tennyson's Idylls of the King were born in the town. The previous year Grimshaw had built a house on the cliffs called 'Castle by the Sea', possibly named after Longfellow's eponymous poem.