{"Id":256,"Name":"John Atkinson Grimshaw","Biography":"\u003Ccenter\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJohn Atkinson Grimshaw\u003C/b\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eby Paul Ripley\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/center\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAtkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds, his father was a policeman, \u0026 he started work as a railway clerk. His parents were opposed to his taking up art as a career. Grimshaw was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, \u0026 in his youth produced vivid, highly finished landscapes. Gradually, Grimshaw developed his own highly distinctive style, \u0026 subject matter. He became a consummate painter of twilight, night time, \u0026 autumnal scenes. Grimshaw spent holidays at Scarborough, \u0026 many of his pictures were set there, \u0026 in Whitby. He also painted nocturnal harbour \u0026 dockside pictures. He spent some time in London.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EGrimshaw was, though, a Northerner, \u0026 Leeds remained his base, \u0026 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 rumoured that he was a friend of Whistler. Grimshaw\u0026rsquo;s output was much more varied than just this however. He painted portraits, interiors, fairy pictures, \u0026 most accomplished fancy pictures, of attractive gorgeously dressed young women in opulent interiors. In the early 1890s Grimshaw\u0026rsquo;s style seemed to be developing in new directions, three pictures showing this are Sand, Sea, Summer, \u0026 Fantasy of 1892, \u0026 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 Grimshaw died of cancer in 1893.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVictorian Art in Britain\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":true,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":155}