Gods and Foolish Grandeur: John Atkinson Grimshaw

Friday, February 10, 2017

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The dog "Chinois", by Carolus-Duran, 1884.

A Girl, by Leon Wyczółkowski, 1892.

Globo aerostatico, guidato dall’aeronauta Julhes (ascensione del 19 marzo 1884, Firenze), by Fratelli Alinari, 1884.

Toilettentisch, by Herbert Ploberger, 1926.

Study, by William Mulready 1846.

Mrs. G. Miller, by Horst, 1936.

Mistress Dorothy, by John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1885.

Poppies, by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1891.

Frau Elisabeth Wilhelmine Jeanrenaud and her children Karl Cornelius, Julie, and Cecilie, by Bernhard Schlösser, 1835.

Unknown, circa 1920s-30s.

Children's party at the Spanish Embassy in Lisbon, by Carlos Alberto Lima, 1907.

Regentesses of the Heilige Geesthuis in Haarlem, by Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, 1642.

Unknown, circa first quarter of the twentieth century.

Portrait of an unknown woman, Spanish school, circa 1780s.

Christian VII of Denmark, by Peder Als, circa 1772.

Posing Male Model, by Harold Knight, 1931.

Easter Parade, New York, by Brassaï (né Gyula Halász), 1957.

In the Restaurant, by Charles Hoffbauer, 1907.

Unknown, circa 1950s.

A Woman at the Fountain with Rising Moon, by Ferdinand Knab, 1866.

Mr. and Mrs. James Dunlop, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, circa 1825.

The exiled King Manuel II of Portugal and Queen Augusta Victoria, née Princess Auguste Viktoria of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, circa 1913.

The Old Violin, by William Michael Harnett, 1886.

Paramahansa Yogananda, Lake Chapala, Mexico, unknown photographer, 1929.

Marcelle Souty, by Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta, 1915.

Frank Delos Coates, by Spartan of Hollywood, circa 1950s.

Portrait of Mrs. Bacon, by Sir William Ross, 1841.

Louise Amour Marie De La Roche Fontenilles Marquesa De Rambures, by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, circa 1871.

English explorer Tristram Speedy with Prince Alemayehu of Ethiopia, by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.

The first performance of La Belle Arsène (Act III, Scene 8), an opéra comique by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, by Pehr Hilleström, 1773.

"Etude" for Vogue magazine, by Baron de Meyer, circa 1918.

Farmer, by Gustave Roud, circa 1940s.

Child, by Arthur Siebelist, ND.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Nocturne and gold - paintings by John Atkinson Grimshaw

Moonlight on the Lake, Roundhay Park, Leeds. (Almost all of the paintings featured in this post were completed in the 1870s and 1880s.)

John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836, Leeds – 13 October 1893, Leeds), English Victorian-era artist. He is best known for his autumnal, sparsely populated landscape settings, his crepuscular or moonlit views of city and suburban streets and of the docks in London, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow.

The Lovers.

At the age of twenty, he married his cousin Frances Hubbard (1835–1917). Four years later, 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 flowers - under the patronage of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. His work would be much influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and in the 1880s Grimshaw maintained a London studio in Chelsea, not far from the studio of James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

A Moonlit Lane.

Grimshaw died of tuberculosis a month before his fifty-seventh birthday and is buried in the former Woodhouse Cemetery. He left behind no papers, letters, or journals, so there has been little material on which to base scholarship of his life and career. Several of his children - Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864–1913), Louis H. Grimshaw (1870–1944), Wilfred Grimshaw (1871–1937), and Elaine Grimshaw (1877–1970) - also became painters.