Chronology of John Atkinson Grimshaw CONTINUED 1872 A House of Commons committee commissions Grimshaw to paint three views of the Roundhay Estate in order to consider the Leeds Corporation Improvement Bill which sought to make the area a public park. 1874 Grimshaw has his first work accepted at the Royal Academy, London, The Lady of the Lea. 1875 Four paintings by Grimshaw are accepted at The Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures. Grimshaw paints a series of paintings of fashionable women. ‘Castle-by-the-sea’, Scarborough. © Scarborough Museums Trust
1876 Grimshaw makes additions to a house in Scarborough, ‘Castle-by-the-Sea’, named after Longfellow’s poem, which he rents from Thomas Jarvis, a local brewer and patron of Grimshaw. 1877 The twins Elaine and Lancelot are born and named after characters in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. 1878 Grimshaw travels to Germany through France, escorting the governess Mrs Ruhl home.
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