John Atkinson Grimshaw

John Atkinson Grimshaw

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 – 1893) was a Victorian-era painter, notable for his landscapes, usually known as "Atkinson Grimshaw".

Life

He was born 6 September 1836 in Leeds. In 1856 he married his cousin Frances Hubbard (1835-1917). He died 13 October 1893, and is buried in Woodhouse cemetery, Leeds.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed 21 June 2008]

In 1861, at the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he departed from his first job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to pursue a career in art. He began exhibiting in 1862, under the patronage of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, with paintings mainly of dead birds, fruit and blossom. Steer, I. (2002) "History of British Art page 154", Bath: Parragon. ISBN 0-75257-602-X] He became particularly successful in the 1870s and was able to afford to rent a second home in Scarborough, which also became a favourite subject.

Work

Grimshaw's primary influence was the Pre-Raphaelites. True to the Pre-Raphaelite style, he put forth landscapes of accurate color and lighting, and vivid detail. He would often paint landscapes that typified seasons, or that typified a kind of weather. By applying his skill in lighting effects, and unusually careful attention to detail, he was often capable of intricately describing a scene, while strongly conveying its mood.

"Dulce Domum" (1855), on whose reverse Grimshaw wrote, 'mostly painted under great difficulties,' captures the music portrayed in the piano player, entices the eye to meander through the richly decorated room, and to consider the still and silent young lady who is meanwhile listening.

"On Hampstead Hill" is considered one of Grimshaw's finest, exemplifying his skill with a variety of light sources, in capturing the mood of the passing of twilight into the onset of night. In his later career this use of twilight, and urban scenes under yellow light were highly popular, especially with his middle-class patrons. . His later work included imagined scenes from the Greek and Roman empires, and he also painted literary subjects from Longfellow and Tennyson. His reputation rested, and his legacy is probably based on, his townscapes. .

His early paintings were signed "JAG", "J. A. Grimshaw", or "John Atkinson Grimshaw", but he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw".

References

External links

* [http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Grimshaw.html A collection of Grimshaw paintings]
* [http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/?lid=947 Royal Academy biography]
* [http://www.atkinsongrimshaw.co.uk Atkinson Grimshaw]
* [http://www.scarboroughmuseums.org.uk/art_gallery.html Scarborough Art Gallery]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20071011134642/http://phryne.com/artists/89-63-79.HTM Phryne's list of paintings by Grimshaw in accessible collections in the UK]


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