1836 - 1893
John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes. He was called a "remarkable and imaginative painter" by the critic and historian Christopher Wood in Victorian Painting (1999).Grimshaw'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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Atkinson Grimshaw has received more than 447,992 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Atkinson Grimshaw is the 1,132nd most popular painter (up from 1,261st in 2019), the 2,288th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,901st in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Painter.
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Among painters, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 1,132 out of 1,421. Before him are Achilles Painter, Laurits Tuxen, Paja Jovanović, Amalia Lindegren, Orlan, and Alexey Venetsianov. After him are Charles de La Fosse, Henri Regnault, Charles Laval, John Singleton Copley, Fritz Bleyl, and Ivan Grohar.
470 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 1,126
1853 - 1927
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 1,127
1859 - 1957
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 1,128
1814 - 1891
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 1,129
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 1,130
1780 - 1847
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 1,131
1836 - 1893
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 1,132
1636 - 1716
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 1,133
1843 - 1871
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 1,134
1862 - 1894
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 1,135
1738 - 1815
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 1,136
1880 - 1966
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 1,137
1867 - 1911
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 1,138
Among people born in 1836, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 47. Before him are Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Georg August Schweinfurth, Máximo Gómez, Juliette Adam, and Cirilo Antonio Rivarola. After him are Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Giuseppe Abbati, Alfred Grandidier, Edward Poynter, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, and Ernst von Bergmann. Among people deceased in 1893, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 44. Before him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Anna Bilińska, Grigor Parlichev, Princess Marguerite of Orléans, William Smith, and Antonio Ghislanzoni. After him are Tivadar Puskás, Anton von Schmerling, Victor Schœlcher, Concepción Arenal, Franz Grashof, and Georgi Pulevski.
1836 - 1914
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 41
1836 - 1885
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 42
1836 - 1925
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 43
1836 - 1905
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 44
1836 - 1936
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 45
1836 - 1878
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 46
1836 - 1893
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 47
1836 - 1923
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 48
1836 - 1868
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 49
1836 - 1921
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 50
1836 - 1919
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 51
1836 - 1908
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 52
1836 - 1907
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 53
1815 - 1893
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 38
1854 - 1893
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 39
1830 - 1893
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 40
1846 - 1893
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 41
1813 - 1893
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 42
1824 - 1893
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 43
1836 - 1893
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 44
1844 - 1893
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 45
1805 - 1893
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 46
1804 - 1893
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 47
1820 - 1893
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 48
1826 - 1893
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 49
1817 - 1893
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 50
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 2,288 out of 7,765. Before him are Winston Graham (1908), Natalie Dormer (1982), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Patrick Troughton (1920), Richard Williamson (1940), and Colin Clark (1905). After him are Eddie Chapman (1914), Robert Broom (1866), Ian Richardson (1934), Edward Arthur Milne (1896), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), and John Stott (1921).
1908 - 2003
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 2,282
1982 - Present
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 2,283
1971 - Present
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 2,284
1920 - 1987
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 2,285
1940 - Present
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 2,286
1905 - 1989
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 2,287
1836 - 1893
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 2,288
1914 - Present
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 2,289
1866 - 1951
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,290
1934 - 2007
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,291
1896 - 1950
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,292
1889 - 1963
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,293
1921 - 2011
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,294
Among painters born in United Kingdom, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 39. Before him are Arthur Hughes (1832), Barbara Hepworth (1903), Richard Wilson (1714), Pieter de Molijn (1595), George Romney (1734), and Matthew Paris (1200). After him are Auguste Couder (1789), Roger Fry (1866), Bridget Riley (1931), L. S. Lowry (1887), Richard Dadd (1817), and Austin Osman Spare (1886).
1832 - 1915
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 33
1903 - 1975
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 34
1714 - 1782
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 35
1595 - 1661
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 36
1734 - 1802
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 37
1200 - 1259
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 38
1836 - 1893
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 39
1789 - 1873
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 40
1866 - 1934
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 41
1931 - Present
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 42
1887 - 1976
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 43
1817 - 1886
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 44
1886 - 1956
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 45