 Atkinson Grimshaw is primarily known as John Atkinson Grimshaw
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Liverpool Custom House and Wapping
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John Atkinson Grimshaw was born 6 September 1836 in Leeds, England. 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 Literary Society, with paintings mainly of birds, fruit, and blossoms. He became particularly successful in the (showing 500 of 7841 characters). |
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