John atkinson grimshaw biography of rory

  • He was a prolific self-taught painter whose innovation was to apply the tradition of rural moonlight images to the city, recording 'the rain and.
  • His 2018 book, The Universal Baroque, was a radical revisioning of cultural history in which national labels were rejected as otiose, and the.
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    National Trust gives Victorian-era tourist attraction a new lease of life

    A Victorian-era tourist attraction that once drew crowds from across the country has been given a new lease of life thanks to the National Trust.

    The giant boulder of Bowder Stone in Keswick, Cumbria, became a famous stop off for thrill-seekers when a flimsy wooden ladder was first installed by eccentric local landowner Joseph Pocklington in 1798.

    Such was its fame that John Atkinson Grimshaw, recognised as one of the most popular artists at the time, painted it at some point between 1863 and 1868 standing prominently in the valley.

    The National Trust, which cares for the stone, has installed a new nine-metre metal ladder to allow tourists to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors.

    The Bowder Stone is approximately nine metres high and 15 metres wide, and is estimated to weigh 1,253 tonnes.

    It is thought to have fallen from the crags above after the last ice age, coming to rest at its current

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    The Brazen Head

    Arctic Elegies

    Peter Davidson, Carcanet, 2022, pb., 72pps. £11.99

    DEREK TURNER feels impelled to look to the north

    There are poets associated with particular places, or special states of mind, but Peter Davidson has made a geo-poetical genre of his own, as celebrant of a huvudregel point. His interests are wide-ranging, but magnetized in one compass direction – towards ‘Norths’ geographical and conceptual, Norths as landscapes and mindscapes, Norths as essences of bleak beauty and soughing melancholy. Auden, Larkin and others celebrated septentrional subjects, but Davidson brings a clarity and suggestiveness all his own to the lonely latitudes that lie above the treeline.

    Davidson studied literature and art history at Cambridge, and taught at Warwick and stad before spending many years as Professor of Renaissance Studies at Aberdeen. He is now Senior Research Fellow at Campion ingångsrum , University of Oxford. His earliest writings were monographs on Scottish

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    #OTD in 1836 Leeds born artist John Atkinson Grimshaw was born. He was a prolific self-taught painter whose innovation was to apply the tradition of rural moonlight images to the city, recording ‘the rain and mist, the puddles and smoky fog of late Victorian industrial England with great poetry’.
    Grimshaw worked in his home city and the docks at Hull, Liverpool and Scarborough. For a time in the 1880s he rented a London studio near the American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. After visiting Grimshaw, Whistler said of the artist: ‘I considered myself the inventor of Nocturnes until I saw Grimmy’s moonlit pictures.’
    : Baiting the Lines, Whitby. 1884. Oil on canvas. From our collection. Photography by Jerry Hardman-Jones