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John Atkinson Grimshaw
| Victorian painter Date of Birth: Country: Great Britain |
Content:
- John Atkinson Grimshaw: A Victorian Landscape Painter
- Early Career and Influences
- Later Years and Legacy
John Atkinson Grimshaw: A Victorian Landscape Painter
John Atkinson Grimshaw was a renowned painter of the Victorian era, best known for his cityscapes that captured the essence of fog and twilight.
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He was born on September 6, , in Leeds. In , he married his cousin Frances Hubbard (). Despite his parents' wishes, Grimshaw quit his job as a clerk in a railway company in to pursue painting.
Early Career and Influences
Grimshaw began exhibiting his works in under the auspices of the Philosophical and Literary Society of Leeds.
His early paintings primarily featured birds, as well as still lifes with flowers and fruits. It was during the s that he gained recognition as an artist and was able to lease a house in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
The Pre-Raphaelites greatly i
