Artist

John Linnell

Portrait of John Linnell
Portrait of John Linnell

British, 1792–1882

John Linnell was a British British Romanticism artist. 31 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. John Linnell was born in Bloomsbury.

John Linnell (16 June 1792 – 20 January 1882) was an English engraver, portrait painter, and landscape painter. He was a naturalist and a rival to the artist John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer.

He also associated with the amateur artist Edward Thomas Daniell, and with William Blake, to whom he introduced the painter and writer Samuel Palmer and others of the Ancients.

Works by John Linnell

31 works in the catalog · 24 shown

Collections represented

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