Samuel Hieronymous Grimm

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
An English Harvest Home by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm 1776
Born	Samuel Hieronymus Grimm January 18, 1733 Burgdorf, Switzerland.
Died	April 14, 1794 Covent Garden, London, England, UK
Nationality	Swiss
Education	Johann Ludwig Aberli and Johann Georg Wille
Known for	Watercolours and wash drawings
Patron(s)	Rev. Sir Richard Kaye, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, Sir William Burrell

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (January 18, 1733 – April 14, 1794) was an 18th-century Swiss landscape artist who worked in oils (until 1764), watercolours, and pen and ink media.

Grimm specialised in documenting historical scenes and events; he also illustrated books such as Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

Grimm was born in 1733 in Burgdorf, a town situated to the north-east of Bern in Switzerland. Initially Grimm aspired to be a poet and in 1762 published a volume of poems. Shortly before 1760 Grimm moved to Bern and studied under Johann Ludwig Aberli who had taken over a drawing school that had previously been run by his uncle Johann Rudolf Grimm Aberli specialised in topographical scenery, particularly of the Swiss Alps and he also patented a technique using faint outline etching for the mass production of these views. Grimm suplied drawings which were used to illustrate Friedrich von Hagedorn's "Poetische Werke" which was published between 1769 and 1772.

Grimm worked for Aberli until 1765, when at the age of 32, he moved to Paris to study under Jean-George Wille. Wille was a member of the Académie royal de peinture et de sculpture and Graveur de Roi. Under Wille, was able to greatly expand his skill as landscape and topographical artist. Surviving work shows that he made sketching trips in the Bois de Boulogne, Normandy and Picardy. At this time he perfected his skills as watercolour artist and a recorder of historic buildings. About March 1768, Grimm left Paris and set out London. Wille wrote about Grimm étoit un bien honnête garçon sue nous estimations beaucoup