John Atkinson Grimshaw

John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a “remarkable and imaginative painter“ known for his city scenes and landscapes. He was born 6 September 1836 in Leeds. In 1856 he married his cousin Frances Hubbard (1835-1917). In 1861, at the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he departed from his first job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to pursue a career in art. He began exhibiting in 1862, under the patronage of the Leeds Philosophical and