约翰·阿特金森格里姆肖生于1836年9月6日在利兹。1856年，他娶了他的表妹弗朗西斯·哈伯德（1835年至1917年）。1861年，时年24岁，他的父母失望，他离开他的工作作为一个店员大北铁路成为一名画家。他在1862年首次展出，大多的小鸟，水果和花画，利兹哲学和文学协会的赞助下。[4]他成为成功的19世纪70年代，并租住在第二家士嘉堡，成为一个最喜欢的科目。

有几个他的孩子的亚瑟·E.格里姆肖（1864年至1913年），路易·格里姆肖H.（1870年至1944年），威尔弗雷德格里姆肖（1871年至1937年）和伊莱恩·格里姆肖（1877至1970年）成为画家。

格里姆肖的主要影响因素是前拉斐尔派。真到了拉斐尔前派的风格，他创造了准确的色彩和灯光，生动的细节和真实感，经常典型化的季节或天气类型的景观。城市和郊区的街道，在伦敦，利兹，利物浦和格拉斯哥船坞的意见春江花同样在他的艺术在很大程度上想通。他的细心绘画和他的灯光效果的技能意味着他捕获的外观和场景的微小细节的心情。他的“阻尼煤气灯照明的街道和滨水飘渺的画传达的城市场景令人毛骨悚然的温暖以及异化。”

杜尔塞Domum（1855年），在其反向格里姆肖写道，“主要是下了很大的困难画”，抓住了钢琴玩家描绘的音乐，诱惑眼睛通过装饰华丽的房间里漫步，并考虑静止和无声的年轻女士谁在听。格里姆肖画更多的室内场景，尤其是在19世纪70年代，当他的影响下工作詹姆斯天梭与运动美学。
在汉普斯特德希尔被认为是格里姆肖的最好的作品之一，体现他的技巧与多种光源，捕捉传球暮夜入的心情。在他的职业生涯后期他的黄昏下或黄色的街灯城市场景很受欢迎，他的中产阶级惠顾。

他后来的作品包括来自希腊和罗马帝国想象的场景，他画了从文学学科朗费罗和丁尼生 -pictures包括伊莱恩和夏洛特的夫人。（格里姆肖命名了他的孩子在丁尼生的诗字符后面。）

在19世纪80年代，格里姆肖保持在伦敦工作室切尔西，不远处的工作室的詹姆斯·惠斯勒。访问格里姆肖后，惠斯勒评论说，“我认为自己的夜曲的发明者，直到我看到Grimmy的月光下的照片。” 不同于惠斯勒的印象派夜间场景格里姆肖在逼真的静脉工作：“重点突出，几乎是摄影的”，他的照片创新的申请农村月光图像维多利亚城的传统，记录“的雨水和雾气，水坑与伟大的诗的维多利亚后期工业英格兰雾排放黑烟。”

格里姆肖的画描绘的当代世界，但回避工业城镇的肮脏和令人沮丧的方面。 克莱德航运，格拉斯哥维多利亚码头的描绘，是工业时代的抒情优美的召唤。格里姆肖转录雾和轻雾，以便准确地捕捉到在潮湿的空气中寒意，和水分渗透在迷蒙的清晨醒了几个数字的厚衣服。

格里姆肖的时期的一些艺术家，如梵高和詹姆斯Smetham，留下信件和文件记录他们的工作和生活。格里姆肖留下没有字母，期刊或论文; 学者和评论家对据以他们自己的生活和事业的理解材料很少。

John Atkinsongrim Shaw was born in September 6, 1836 in Liz. In 1856, he married his cousin Francis Hubbard (1835 - 1917). In 1861, when he was 24 years old, his parents disappointed, he left his job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to become a painter. He first exhibited in 1862, most of the birds, fruit and flower painting, under the auspices of the Liz Institute of philosophy and literature. [4] he became successful in 1870s and rented in second Scarborough, becoming one of his favorite subjects.
There are several of his children Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864 to 1913), Louis Grimshaw H. (1870 to 1944), Wilfred Grim Shaw (1871 to 1937) and Elaine Grim Shaw (1877 to 1970) to become a painter.
The main influence factors of the former school of Rafael grimshaw. True to the pre Raphaelite style, he created accurate color and light, vivid details and sense of reality, often the typical seasonal or weather landscape types. City and suburban street in London, Liz, Liverpool and Glasgow dock views of spring flowers also figured out his art to a great extent. His careful painting and the skill of his lighting effects mean that he captures the mood of the details of the appearance and the scene in detail. His "city scene is damp gas lit streets and waterfront misty paintings convey warmth and alienation with hair standing on end."
Dulce Domum (1855), wrote in the reverse Grimshaw, "is the difficulty of painting" great, seize the piano music depicting the game player, the temptation of the eye through the ornate room to walk, and considering the static and silent young lady who's listening. Grimshaw painted more interior scenes, especially in 1870s, when he was under the influence of James Tissot and sports aesthetics.
Hampus Ted Hill is considered one of Grimshaw's best works, reflecting his skills with a variety of light sources, capture the night into the mood to pass. His career is very popular in the late evening of his occupation or yellow streetlight city scene, his middle class.
His later works include scenes from the Greek and Rome imperial scenes, which he drew from the literary disciplines of Longfellow and -pictures, including the and Mrs. Elaine and the lady of the. (Grimshaw named his child in the back. Tennyson's poem character)
In 1880s, Chelsea Grimshaw in London studio, not far from the studio of James Whistler. After visiting Grimshaw, Whistler commented, "I think his Nocturne's inventor, until I see the moonlight photos Grimmy." Different from Whistler's Impressionist night scene Grimshaw in vein: "realistic work focused, almost photography, photos of his creative application of the image of the city of Vitoria traditional rural moonlight, recorded" rain and mist, and puddle great poem later Vitoria industrial smoky fog in England."
The contemporary world Grimshaw sketch, but avoid the industrial towns in the dirty and frustrating aspects. Clyde shipping, Glasgow Vitoria pier depicts, is the era of the industrial era of the beautiful voice of the call. Grimshaw transcription of fog and mist, in order to accurately capture the chill in the humid air, and water infiltration in the misty early morning wake up a few numbers of thick clothes.
Some artists Grimshaw period, such as Van Gogh and James Smetham, left letters and documents to record their work and life. Grimshaw left no letters, journals or papers; scholars and critics on according to their own life and career rarely understand the material.