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Provenance
With Arthur Tooth, London.
Private collection, UK.
The location of Forge Valley near Scarborough was one often revisited by John Atkinson Grimshaw as he searched for countryside subjects around the coastal town to accompany his sea views and townscapes. It was in the years that this work was created that he rented his seaside home in Scarborough, Castle-by-the-Sea, and it is during this time that he honed his skills in capturing atmosphere and light, particularly under moonlit; the present work epitomises these two attributes that would become synonymous with his paintings from this point on in his career.
We are grateful to Alexander Robertson for his assistance cataloguing this lot.