{"title":"Grimshaw, John Atkinson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrimshaw's love for realism stemmed from a passion for photography, which would eventually lend itself to the creative process. Though entirely self-taught, he is known to have openly used a camera obscura or lenses to project scenes onto canvas, which made up for his shortcomings as a draughtsman and his imperfect knowledge of perspective. This technique, which Caravaggio and Vermeer were suspected to have also used in secret, was condemned by a number of his contemporaries who believed it demonstrated less skill than painting by eye, with some claiming that his paintings appeared to \"show no marks of handling or brushwork\", while others \"were doubtful whether they could be accepted as paintings at all\". However, many recognised his mastery of colour, lighting and shadow, as well as his unique ability to provoke strong emotional responses in the viewer. James McNeill Whistler, whom Grimshaw worked with in his Chelsea studios, stated, \"I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was born on 6 September 1836 in a back-to-back house in Park Street, Leeds to Mary and David Grimshaw. In 1856 he married his cousin Frances Hubbard (1835-1917). In 1861, at the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he left his job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to become a painter. He first exhibited in 1862, mostly paintings of birds, fruit, and blossom, under the patronage of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He and his wife moved in 1866 to a semi-detached villa, which is now numbered 56 Cliff Road in Headingley and has a Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque, and in 1870 to Knostrop Old Hall. He became successful in the 1870s and rented a second home, Castle-by-the-Sea in Scarborough. Scarborough became a favourite subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrimshaw's primary influence was the Pre-Raphaelites. True to the Pre-Raphaelite style, he created landscapes of accurate colour and lighting, vivid detail and realism, often typifying seasons or a type of weather. Moonlit views of city and suburban streets and the docks in London, Hull, Liverpool, and Glasgow also figured largely in his art. His careful painting and his skill in lighting effects meant that he captured both the appearance and the mood of a scene in minute detail. His \"paintings of dampened gas-lit streets and misty waterfronts conveyed an eerie warmth as well as alienation in the urban scene.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDulce Domum (1885)\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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 listening. Grimshaw painted more interior scenes, especially in the 1870s, when he worked under the influence of James Tissot and the Aesthetic Movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Hampstead Hill is considered one of Grimshaw's finest works, exemplifying his skill with a variety of light sources, in capturing the mood of the passing of twilight into night. In his later career his urban scenes under twilight or yellow streetlighting were popular with his middle-class patrons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis later work included imagined scenes from the Greek and Roman empires, and he painted literary subjects from Longfellow and Tennyson, pictures including Elaine and The Lady of Shalott.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"grimshaw-john-atkinson-1836-1893-elaine-1877","title":"Grimshaw, John Atkinson (1836-1893) - Elaine 1877","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Elaine' is a painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw depicting the fictional character Elaine, the 'lily maid of the Astolat', from Tennyson's poem, 'Idylls of the King'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 5446 pixels wide by 3612 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/grimshaw-john-atkinson\" title=\"John Atkinson Grimshaw\"\u003eJohn Atkinson Grimshaw\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50757748588874,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Grimshaw_JohnAtkinson_1836-1893_-Elaine1877_main.jpg?v=1747051979"},{"product_id":"grimshaw-john-atkinson-1836-1893-iris-spirit-of-the-rainbow-1876","title":"Grimshaw, John Atkinson (1836-1893) - Iris, Spirit of the Rainbow 1876","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Iris, Spirit of the Rainbow' is a painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw, depicting the Greek Goddess Iris, a messenger of the gods who is transferred into a fairy-shaped rainbow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 4180 pixels wide by 3270 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/grimshaw-john-atkinson\" title=\"John Atkinson Grimshaw\"\u003eJohn Atkinson Grimshaw\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50757813338442,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Grimshaw_JohnAtkinson_1836-1893_-Iris_SpiritoftheRainbow1876_main.jpg?v=1747051978"},{"product_id":"john-atkinson-grimshaw-24-high-resolution-images","title":"John Atkinson Grimshaw 24 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection features John Atkinson Grimshaw images, many of them being his fantastic moonlight pictures, and also his famous fairy picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 24 hi-res images in JPEG format by the artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3270 pixels wide\/tall to 6580 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick on the link above to see a full list of the images included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrimshaw's love for realism stemmed from a passion for photography, which would eventually lend itself to the creative process. Though entirely self-taught, he is known to have openly used a camera obscura or lenses to project scenes onto canvas, which made up for his shortcomings as a draughtsman and his imperfect knowledge of perspective. This technique, which Caravaggio and Vermeer were suspected to have also used in secret, was condemned by a number of his contemporaries who believed it demonstrated less skill than painting by eye, with some claiming that his paintings appeared to \"show no marks of handling or brushwork\", while others \"were doubtful whether they could be accepted as paintings at all\". However, many recognised his mastery of colour, lighting and shadow, as well as his unique ability to provoke strong emotional responses in the viewer. James McNeill Whistler, whom Grimshaw worked with in his Chelsea studios, stated, \"I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures.\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/grimshaw-john-atkinson\" title=\"John Atkinson Grimshaw\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 24 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50814064230730,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/John_Atkinson_Grimshaw_24_High_Resolution_Images.jpg?v=1747039146"},{"product_id":"pre-raphaelite-collection-574-high-resolution-images","title":"Pre-Raphaelite Collection - 574 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExperience the beauty and passion of the Pre-Raphaelite movement through this collection of 574 images from talented Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood members and artists who embraced the style.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan data-huuid=\"3096898007996193811\"\u003eThe Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and art critics formed in 1848. They rejected the academic art of the Royal Academy and instead sought inspiration in the art of the Italian Renaissance period before Raphael. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-huuid=\"3096898007996192440\"\u003eThe group's name reflected their preference for the \"primitive\" and \"innocent\" style of that era.\u003cspan class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"658cb21f-afe5-40e7-818e-d80903faf6db\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"UV3uM\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan data-huuid=\"3096898007996192440\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"658cb21f-afe5-40e7-818e-d80903faf6db\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"UV3uM\"\u003eIt was founded by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner who formed a seven-member \"Brotherhood\" partly modelled on the Nazarene movement. The Brotherhood was only ever a loose association and their principles were shared by other artists of the time, including Ford Madox Brown, Arthur Hughes and Marie Spartali Stillman. Later followers of the principles of the Brotherhood included Edward Burne-Jones and John William Waterhouse amongst others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 574 hi-res images, in jpeg format. The images are all 600dpi or 300dpi and range in size from 2715 pixels wide\/tall to 21359 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 574 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50820799070538,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Pre-Raphaelite_Collection_-_574_Images.jpg?v=1747045202"},{"product_id":"grimshaw-john-atkinson-1836-1893-bowder-stone-borrowdale-c-1865","title":"Grimshaw, John Atkinson (1836-1893) - Bowder Stone, Borrowdale c.1865","description":"\u003cp\u003ePicture by Victorian artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 4734 pixels wide by 3552 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca title=\"John Atkinson Grimshaw\" href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/grimshaw-john-atkinson\"\u003eJohn Atkinson Grimshaw\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61126933643594,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Grimshaw_JohnAtkinson_1836-1893_-BowderStone_Borrowdale_main.jpg?v=1771439468"},{"product_id":"grimshaw-john-atkinson-1836-1893-tranquility-1880","title":"Grimshaw, John Atkinson (1836-1893) - Tranquility 1880","description":"\u003cp\u003ePicture by Victorian artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 3710 pixels wide by 4627 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca title=\"John Atkinson Grimshaw\" href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/grimshaw-john-atkinson\"\u003eJohn Atkinson Grimshaw\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61248064258378,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Grimshaw_JohnAtkinson_1836-1893_-Tranquility1880_main.jpg?v=1772671508"},{"product_id":"grimshaw-john-atkinson-1836-1893-under-the-moonbeams-1882","title":"Grimshaw, John Atkinson (1836-1893) - Under the Moonbeams 1882","description":"\u003cp\u003ePicture by Victorian artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 3906 pixels wide by 4788 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca title=\"John Atkinson Grimshaw\" href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/grimshaw-john-atkinson\"\u003eJohn Atkinson Grimshaw\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61248095715658,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Grimshaw_JohnAtkinson_1836-1893_-UndertheMoonbeams1882_main.jpg?v=1772671509"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Grimshaw_John_Atkinson_1836-1893-455971.jpg?v=1745668315","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/grimshaw-john-atkinson.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}