Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Sunday 12 November 2023

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893). The Victorian-Era Artist From Leeds, England.




"November".
Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).
Date: 1879.
This File: 19 September 2013.
User: Austriacus
(Wikimedia Commons)



"Nightfall on The Thames".
Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).
Date: 1880.
Current location: Leeds City Art Gallery, England.
Source/Photographer:
(Wikimedia Commons)


John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his City night-scenes and landscapes.

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.



"A Moonlit Evening".
Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).
Date: 1880.
Current location: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,
Madrid, Spain.
Source/Photographer:
by Flickr user mbell1975.
(Wikimedia Commons)

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