Posts in Category: september 6

Giovanni Fattori

On August 10, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, Italian, september 6

Giovanni Fattori, September 6, 1825 – August 30, 1908, was an Italian painter and printmaker born in Livorno. He studied there with Giuseppe Baldini before moving to Florence, where he trained with Giuseppe Bezzuoli and at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In Florence, Fattori frequented the Caffè Michelangiolo and became a leading member of the Macchiaioli. He painted historical subjects, scenes of military and rural life, landscapes, portraits, and later produced many etchings; from 1869 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, where his students included Plinio Nomellini and Amedeo Modigliani.

Fattori remained active in Florence until his death in 1908. Major holdings of his work are in the Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno; the Gallery of Modern Art in the Pitti Palace, Florence; and the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome.

 

John Atkinson Grimshaw

On July 24, 2026 - 19th Century, English, september 6

John Atkinson Grimshaw, September 6, 1836 – October 31, 1893, was an English painter of landscapes, town views, dockyards, and figure subjects. Born in Leeds, he worked as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway before leaving that employment in 1861 to become an artist. He was self-taught and began exhibiting in Leeds in 1862.

Grimshaw exhibited under the patronage of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society and later showed at the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. He lived and worked in Leeds, maintained a second home in Scarborough during the 1870s, and painted subjects in Leeds, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Hull, Scarborough, and Whitby. His sons Arthur and Louis, and two other children, also became painters.

His work is held by Leeds Art Gallery, which has the largest public collection of his work, as well as the Ashmolean Museum, Scarborough Art Gallery, Laing Art Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.