
John Atkinson Grimshaw Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 1
1836-1893English Aesthetic Painter
The artist John Atkinson Grimshaw was a Victorian-era painter, born in Leeds, England, living from 1836 to 1893. At the age of twenty-four, 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.
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.
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. Dulce Donum (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.
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7 Paintings of Grimshaw
Private Collection
Midsummer Night
$917
Private Collection
The Lady of Shalott
$962
Private Collection
The Lighthouse At Scarborough
$591
Private Collection
London Bridge - Half Tide
$1149
Private Collection
Stapleton Park near Pontefract
$1362
Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania USA
Liverpool from Wapping
$1107
$49.11