"Nightfall on The Thames".
Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).
Date: 1880.
Current location: Leeds City Art Gallery, England.
Source/Photographer: Direct link via Leeds Museum & Galleries.
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His early paintings were signed "JAG," "J. A. Grimshaw," or "John Atkinson Grimshaw," though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw."
John Atkinson Grimshaw was born Leeds, England. In 1856, he married his Cousin, Frances Hubbard (1835–1917). In 1861, at the age of twenty-four, to the dismay of his parents, he left his job as a Clerk for The Great Northern Railway to become a painter.
He first exhibited in 1862, mostly paintings of birds, fruit and blossom, under the patronage of The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He became successful in the 1870s and rented a second home in Scarborough, which became a favourite subject of his paintings.
Several of his children, Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864–1913), Louis H. Grimshaw (1870–1944), Wilfred Grimshaw (1871–1937) and Elaine Grimshaw (1877–1970) became painters.
"November".
Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).
Date: 1879.
This File: 19 September 2013.
User: Austriacus
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"A Moonlit Evening".
Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).
Date: 1880.
Current location: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,
Madrid, Spain.
Source/Photographer: posted to Flickr as John Atkinson Grimshaw -
with a Copy Fraud License by Flickr user mbell1975.
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The "light" that John Atkinson Grimshaw "captures on canvas" is extraordinary. There is definitely something to a visual artist being able to "see" something the rest of us do not. - Note by Dante P
ReplyDeleteI agree totally with your observation, Dante P. Thank You for your welcome Comment.
ReplyDeleteI like this particular Artist so much, I have all the pictures shown in this Article hanging in my hall at home.
Perkins does not like having to clean them on a regular basis !!!