John Atkinson Grimshaw 24 High Resolution Images

This collection features John Atkinson Grimshaw images, many of them being his fantastic moonlight pictures, and also his famous fairy picture.

This download features 24 hi-res images in JPEG format by the artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.

The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3270 pixels wide/tall to 6580 pixels wide/tall.

Click on the link above to see a full list of the images included.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes.

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. This technique, which Caravaggio and Vermeer were suspected to have also used in secret, was condemned by a number of his contemporaries who believed it demonstrated less skill than painting by eye, with some claiming that his paintings appeared to "show no marks of handling or brushwork", while others "were doubtful whether they could be accepted as paintings at all". However, many recognised his mastery of colour, lighting and shadow, as well as his unique ability to provoke strong emotional responses in the viewer. James McNeill Whistler, whom Grimshaw worked with in his Chelsea studios, stated, "I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures." Read more.