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John Atkinson Grimshaw

1836 - 1893

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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

Among painters, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 1,132 out of 1,421Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 47Before 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 44Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 2,288 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, John Atkinson Grimshaw ranks 39Before 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).