John Atkinson Grimshaw was born in 1836 in Victorian England in Leeds. He lived with his parents in a simple row house of the working class at the time of industrialization. As a young man he worked for a railway company, but soon he was attracted by the painting and his cousin Frances Hubbard. He married Frances and quit the profession in favor of his love of the arts. He taught himself how to paint. Unfortunately, you do not know much about Grimshaw. His life and work took place in the north of England. His pictures are predominantly privately owned. And he did not leave behind letters or other documents about himself. He was often underestimated, even considered by contemporaries to be unable to do any artistic work at all. Others found him great, including
James Abbott McNeill Whistler , with whom Grimshaw worked. Whistler recognized him as a great master with a special understanding of techniques and light conditions.
In his early years Grimshaw made pictures of flowers, birds and fruit. The Pre-Raphaelite influenced him. Later he dedicated himself passionately to nightly city scenes. He understood how hardly anyone else could portray realistic, rainy, foggy streets illuminated by dim gas lanterns in the cities of England and Scotland. Despite their sometimes lonely evening mood, the pictures exude a certain cheerfulness, seem mysterious, almost surreal - as if the painted motifs were just a strange dream. Even the maritime fascinated Grimshaw. Thus, among his works are numerous pictures of magnificent windjammers, lying at anchor in the harbor grounds of Liverpool and Glasgow. Often the moon shyly lights up the scene, timidly escaping from a blanket of cloud, giving the whole thing a certain romance, without glossing over the oppressive atmosphere of England's former industrial cities.
In the meantime, Grimshaw also ventured into other areas, painted enchanted motifs of fairies and elves and figures from the Arthurian legend, such as the Lady of Shalott, drifting on a bark in calm waters.
John Atkinson Grimshaw died of cancer in 1893 at the age of only 57. At one of his former homes in Leeds is a blue commemorative plaque. Two of his children devoted themselves, as he once did, to painting.
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.jpg "Gloucester Docks, c.1880 by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Liverpool Docks Customs House and Salthouse Docks, Liverpool by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Forge Valley, Scarborough by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Forge Valley by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Scarborough: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Whitby by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Liverpool Docks by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Where the pale moonbeams linger by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Liverpool Docks by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Moonlight Walk by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "A Moonlit Road, 19th century by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Blea Tarn by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-558648).jpg "Bonchurch, Ventnor, Isle of Wight (board) by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "The Wharfe above Bolton Woods with Barden Tower in the Distance by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "The Cradle Song by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Forge Valley by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Autumn Sunshine, Stapleton Park near Pontefract by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Port Light by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "River Landscape by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Tranquility by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "After the Shower by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Ingleborough from under White Scar, Yorkshire Limestone Strata, 1868 by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Starling by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "The Chorale by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Lady bountiful by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "The Timber Waggon by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "A Summer Noon, old farmstead, Wharfedale by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "A Burnsall Valley, Wharfedale by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "From the Old Church Steps, Scar by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Sunshine through winter trees by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Scarborough by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Scarborough: Lights by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "J.A.Grimshaw, Full moon behind cirrus cloud from Roundhay P. by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "Stapleton Park, near Pontrefact, Leeds by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
.jpg "At The Park Gaten by John Atkinson Grimshaw")
