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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins (British Victorian painter, 1857-1936). Wilfred began with a studio, as a carver and gilder. He than started painting, but exhibited only locally.
He was a little known artist of the era, but is now beginning to be reevaluated for his dusk time paintings. He painted nocturnal images, water scenes, moonlit streets and buildings. He highlighted the twilight with illumination falling out of the glass windows and feeble street lights. He used many colours for the atmospheric effects to express the mood.
He never used impressionistic or expressionistic effects in his paintings. He uses the moon of summer evenings (brighter fortnight), and rarely the west side early morning moon (of the dark fortnight). His water colours are worlds apart in style.
He was possibly impressed by the style of his contemporary Atkinson Grimshaw.
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