London Art Week: Two paintings of Yorkshire's stunning views on sale during London Art Week

I first encountered the Atlantic puffin (scientific name: Fratercula arctica) during a helicopter trip to the Bristol Channel island of Lundy in the 1980s, admiring from the shoreline the charismatic seabirds with other visitors to the island, named after the Old Norse word for puffin, lundi.

Yorkshire too, of course, is a safe haven for puffins, most famously at Flamborough Cliffs and Bempton Cliffs.

It is the former that attracted the attention of London-born artist Henry Barlow Carter (1804-1868), who moved to Hull by 1830 and later to Scarborough, where he married his cousin, Eliza.

His atmospheric seascapes were inspired by the great JMW Turner and one, Puffins near Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, a watercolour with heightened bodycolour, surfaces at London Art Week, which runs from June 28- July 5 at galleries in central London.

Mind you, the little puffins hardly take centre stage, their appearance dotted here and there dwarfed by cliffs, threatening skies, choppy seas and detritus on the rocky shoreline in a seascape scene perhaps inspired by JMW Turner. It is priced at £3,500. Carter, who exhibited at the Royal Academy, also illustrated The Guide to Scarborough and taught his two sons to paint.

One, Joseph Newington Carter (1835-1871) became an artist of note, remembered for his dramatic and compelling seascapes, and the other, Henry Vandyke Carter (1831-1897), was an anatomist and surgeon who illustrated the famous Gray's Anatomy, first published in 1858.

Moving on...and another Yorkshire view surfaces at London Art Week through an artist glorying in the name of Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794), a Swiss landscape painter and a "man of genius" who settled in England and specialised in documenting "anything curious" while travelling with the pious Rev. Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet (1736-1809), Dean of Lincoln from 1783.

Grimm's long range View of Barbot Hall, Rotherham, Yorkshire, a pen, ink and watercolour depiction of the imposing hilltop home and the surrounding countryside, is priced at £5,500.

The hall was once owned by Major General Kenneth Howard, who took the title Lord Howard along with the lordships of the manors of Rotherham and Kimberworth. A career soldier, he married Charlotte Primrose, daughter of the Earl of Roseberry, and had five children. When he died, Charlotte married again, at the age of 80...to a man 50 years her junior.

Kenneth and Charlotte's heir was the charitable Henry Howard, who would go on to have a remarkable influence on Rotherham and its development. I also elicited this snippet about Henry: "In 1843, he was here to watch Mr [Charles] Brown's balloon launch in the town centre. The balloon eventually landed in Whiston, although there was no word on the fate of Mr Brown."

Grimm himself was extraordinarily prolific, with the British Library possessing 2,662 drawings in 12 volumes by the artist, covering most of England, and a further 886 watercolours in seven volumes dedicated to Sussex alone.

Two works by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970), who honed her skills in Staithes, are also exhibited. A watercolour, No. 1 Dressing Room, depicts artist Eileen Mayo (1906-1994), a favourite model of Laura's, naked as a ballerina applying her makeup. The work - priced in the region of £40,000 - combines the artist's frank depiction of the female form with her longstanding love of ballet.

Less familiar to collectors of work by the first artist to be created a Dame of the British Empire, is a miniature enamel from 1914 depicting the prima ballerina Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) and fellow Russian dancer Mikhail Mordkin (1880-1944). He joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1909 and after the first season remained in Paris to dance with Pavlova. Asking price: £18,000.

Space prohibits no more than a brief mention of further LAW attractions, among them work by women artists back to 17th century professional portraitist Mary Beale; Newlyn school painters including Samuel John Lamorna Birch, Charles Walter Simpson, Dod Procter, Harold Knight and Stanhope Alexander Forbes; York-born Henry Scott Tuke; and equine sculptures by Antoine- Louis Barye, Rembrandt Bugatti, Nic Fiddian-Green and Nicola Theakston.

A themed show of men and women at work is included, plus displays of animals in art, French Impressionists, Great War prints, works on paper by the Italian Baroque painter known as Guercino and one devoted to Anna Boberg (1864-1935), acclaimed as "Sweden's greatest artist" in 1906.

Further LAW details and venues available at : https://londonartweek.co.uk/exhibitors/