Nightfall Down the Thames

Nightfall Down the Thames is an 1880 painting by English painter John Atkinson Grimshaw.

History and description The painting depicts a night scene on the River Thames, with St Paul's Cathedral in the centre and masts of boats in the foreground. Unlike Grimshaw's Reflections on the Thames, Westminster which depicts the river lit by the light of the moon and electric lamps along the Victoria Embankment, the painting takes a perspective more distanced from the life of the city. The painting, along with Grimshaw's other night scenes reputedly inspired James McNeill Whistler, who may have known Grimshaw personally, to remark "I thought I had invented the Nocturne, until I saw Grimmy's moonlights".

See also

Reflections on the Thames, Westminster

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