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John Atkinson Grimshaw BiographyEnglish Aesthetic artistborn 1836 - died 1893 Father of: Arthur E. Grimshaw (1868-1913) Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds, his father was a policeman, and he started work as a railway clerk. His parents were opposed to his taking up art as a career. John Atkinson Grimshaw was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and in his youth produced vivid, highly finished landscapes. Gradually, the artist developed his own highly distinctive style, and subject matter. |
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| He became a consummate painter of twilight, moonlight, city scenes, night time, and autumnal scenes. The painter spent holidays at Scarborough, and many of John Atkinson Grimshaw paintings were set there, and in Whitby. He also painted nocturnal harbor and dockside paintings. He spent some time in London. | |
| John Atkinson Grimshaw was, though, a Northerner, and Leeds remained his base, and his commercial success allowed him to buy Knostrop Hall on the outskirts of the city. For a short time in the mid 1880s, he did have a London Studio. It is rumored that he was a friend of Whistler. John Atkinson Grimshaw art output was much more varied than just this however. He painted portraits, interiors, fairy works, and most accomplished fancy paintings, of attractive gorgeously dressed young women in opulent interiors. | |
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In the early 1890s John Atkinson Grimshaw paintings style seemed to be developing in new directions, three pictures showing this are Sand, Sea, Summer, and Fantasy of 1892, and At Anchor 1893. He seemed to be moving towards a freer, less formal style of painting, perhaps influenced to a degree by Whistler. Unhappily this change of direction was not to, be as John Atkinson Grimshaw died of cancer in 1893.. | ||||||
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