Paintings of Leeds

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Wed 14 Jul, 2010 8:40 am

Boar Lane - Leeds - Atkinson Grimshaw - 1881For completeness - and because it's a Atkinson Grimshaw - and because it's the only one I've actually seen in the flesh (presently in Leeds Museum Leeds Room.)

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 14 Jul, 2010 9:38 pm

Leeds Hippo wrote: Boar Lane - Leeds - Atkinson Grimshaw - 1881For completeness - and because it's a Atkinson Grimshaw - and because it's the only one I've actually seen in the flesh (presently in Leeds Museum Leeds Room.) I find that to be an amazing painting. If I did not know it was done in 1881 I would haved guessed well into the the 1900's. Even allowing for artistic interpretation it does show a very well lit scene whereas I thought the period was one of drabness with probably little light in shops. Great painting.

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 2:52 pm

Leeds from Rope Hill, c.1840 Alphonse Douseau Not a very good image - but another one in Leeds Museum Leeds Room.Question is - where is Rope Hill? I've seen photos on Leodis referring to a Rope hill and Middleton Railway but I'm confused by the direction of the smoke in the painting.

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 2:55 pm

Leodian wrote: Leeds Hippo wrote: Boar Lane - Leeds - Atkinson Grimshaw - 1881For completeness - and because it's a Atkinson Grimshaw - and because it's the only one I've actually seen in the flesh (presently in Leeds Museum Leeds Room.) I find that to be an amazing painting. If I did not know it was done in 1881 I would haved guessed well into the the 1900's. Even allowing for artistic interpretation it does show a very well lit scene whereas I thought the period was one of drabness with probably little light in shops. Great painting. Don't know how Atkinson Grimshaw did it but many of his paintings are almost luminous and seem to emit light.

jim · Post by **jim** » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 4:08 pm

Hi Leeds Hippo, the picture you posted is indeed overlooking the Middleton Colliery Railway at the present day crest of Old Run Road. It must have been one of those rare days when Leeds weather comes from the East - so it must be colder than it looks!

Si · Post by Si » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 4:25 pm

Leeds Hippo wrote: Leodian wrote: Leeds Hippo wrote: Boar Lane - Leeds - Atkinson Grimshaw - 1881For completeness - and because it's a Atkinson Grimshaw - and because it's the only one I've actually seen in the flesh (presently in Leeds Museum Leeds Room.) I find that to be an amazing painting. If I did not know it was done in 1881 I would haved guessed well into the the 1900's. Even allowing for artistic interpretation it does show a very well lit scene whereas I thought the period was one of drabness with probably little light in shops. Great painting. Don't know how Atkinson Grimshaw did it but many of his paintings are almost luminous and seem to emit light. The lighting effects in a lot of Atkinson Grimshaw's twilight paintings look like a night-time scene with an almost daylight sky.Reminds me of Magritte's "Empire of Light."

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 4:35 pm

jim wrote: Hi Leeds Hippo, the picture you posted is indeed overlooking the Middleton Colliery Railway at the present day crest of Old Run Road. It must have been one of those rare days when Leeds weather comes from the East - so it must be colder than it looks! Yes the smoke fooled me - I thought the artist was looking south.It amuses me to think that the likes of Benjamin Gott who built their houses in the west of Leeds would have got some of their own medicine (smoke) when the wind blew from the east! Another coincidence - in the museum the bust of Benjamin Gott is directly beneath the rope hill painting

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Fri 16 Jul, 2010 9:14 am

Si wrote: Leeds Hippo wrote: Leodian wrote: Leeds Hippo wrote: Boar Lane - Leeds - Atkinson Grimshaw - 1881For completeness - and because it's a Atkinson Grimshaw - and because it's the only one I've actually seen in the flesh (presently in Leeds Museum Leeds Room.) I find that to be an amazing painting. If I did not know it was done in 1881 I would haved guessed well into the the 1900's. Even allowing for artistic interpretation it does show a very well lit scene whereas I thought the period was one of drabness with probably little light in shops. Great painting. Don't know how Atkinson Grimshaw did it but many of his paintings are almost luminous and seem to emit light. The lighting effects in a lot of Atkinson Grimshaw's twilight paintings look like a night-time scene with an almost daylight sky.Reminds me of Magritte's "Empire of Light." Certainly a clever technique - the contrast seems to fool the brain

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Fri 16 Jul, 2010 9:48 pm

Monk Bridge Works - unknown artist and date but must be before 1880 and after 1827 (probably after 1850 due to the railway) since it shows the old suspension Monk Bridge shown on the Leodis Site(The road on the left is the Whitehall road aka Halifax New Road)http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... r=8917Does anyone know who the artist is?Wonder if it was a Joseph Rhodes? The viaduct is still visible today from the Whitehall road Update: Probably painted by Richard Dodd Widdas circa 1854 (Thanks to Graham Whitham for the info)

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Sat 17 Jul, 2010 9:05 pm

A drawing rather than a paintingView of Leeds from (or near) the Halifax New Road 1846 - Henry BurnQuestion is - where is he standing - The Halifax New Road is the Whitehall road. This would have been a toll road at that time but I can't place where he is stood - was a south wind blowing since the road runs east to west. Is the road the one in the foreground with the horse and coach. The Whitehall road is fairly level until it gets to Ringways Assuming it's mid day the shadows of the figures suggest we are looking east from high ground Wonder if the row of houses to the left is Copley Hill - there is a row of houses on the 1831 map (Copley hilll was called Holbeck Lane on the map) - all this is before the railways. If this was the case the artist would be stood where Wortley recreation ground is looking towards Holbeck. (I could of course be completely wrong) Update - I wonder if this is a black and white photo of a coloured painting and if so where is the original? Update - I've seen another map in the Museum that called the flat area the "Waterloo Plains" though I don't think the name stuck.Update - added a better image I found in a Thoresby Publication - their notes support view is taken from near CopleyRef: Bonser & Nichols “Printed Maps and Plans of Leeds 1711-1900”, As a footnote - at the bottom of Copley Hill among the cluster of Mills will be Mill Green where Matthew Murray had his factory before relocating to Water Lane Holbeck Update - Henry Burn English then Australian landscape artist 1807-1884Quite a bit about the artist here - I was hoping he had done other paintings of Leedshttp://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-11/t1-g-t1.htmlQuote:...he travelled quite extensively about England — as far north as Yorkshire, as far south as Dorset, and particularly about the Midlands — and lithographed on stone a number of topographical ‘Views’ of English towns, including Bournemouth (1840), Blandford (n.d.), Weymouth (1842), Wolverhampton (1844), Walsall (1845), Birmingham (1845), Nottingham (1846), Derby (1846), Leeds (1846), Halifax (1847), Shrewsbury (1847), Worcester (n.d.),