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See also:LINNELL, See also:JOHN (1792—1882) , See also:English painter, was See also:born in See also:London on the 16th of See also:June 1792. His See also:father being a See also:carver and See also:gilder, Linnell was See also:early brought into contact with artists, and when he was ten years old he was See also:drawing and selling his portraits in See also:chalk and See also:pencil. His first See also:artistic instruction was received from See also:Benjamin See also:West, and he spent a See also:year in the See also:house of John See also:Varley the See also:water-See also:colour painter, where he had See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Hunt and See also:Mulready as See also:fellow-pupils, and made the acquaintance of See also:Shelley, See also:Godwin and other men of See also:mark. In 1805 he was admitted a student of the Royal See also:Academy, where he obtained medals for drawing, modelling and See also:sculpture. He was also trained as an engraver, and executed a transcript of Varley's " See also:Burial of See also:Saul." In after See also:life he frequently occupied himself with the burin, See also:publishing, in 1834, a See also:series of outlines from See also:Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine See also:chapel, and, in 1840, superintending the issue of a selection of plates from the pictures in See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham See also:Palace, one of them, a See also:Titian landscape, being mezzotinted by himself. At first he supported himself mainly by See also:miniature See also:painting, and by the See also:execution of larger portraits, such as the likenesses of Mulready, See also:Whately, See also:Peel and See also:Carlyle. Several of his portraits he engraved with his own See also:hand in See also:line and See also:mezzotint. He also painted many subjects like the " St John See also:Preaching," the " See also:Covenant of See also:Abraham," and the "See also:Journey to See also:Emmaus," in which, while the landscape is usually prominent the figures are yet of sufficient importance to See also:supply the See also:title
of the See also:work. But it is mainly in connexion with his paintings of pure landscape that his name is known. His See also:works commonly See also:deal with some See also:scene of typical uneventful English landscape, which is made impressive by a gorgeous effect of sunrise or sunset. They are full of true poetic feeling, and are See also:rich and glowing in colour. Linnell was able to command very large prices for his pictures, and about r85o he See also:purchased a See also:property at Redhill, See also:Surrey, where he resided till his See also:death on the loth of See also:January 1882, painting with unabated See also:power till within the last few years of his life. His leisure was greatly occupied with a study of the Scriptures in the See also:original, and he published several See also:pamphlets and larger See also:treatises of Biblical See also:criticism. Linnell was one of the best See also:friends and kindest patrons of William See also:Blake. He gave him the two largest commissions he ever received for single series of designs—Lr5o for drawings and engravings of The Inventions to the See also:Book of See also:Job, and a like sum for those illustrative of See also:Dante.
End of Article: LINNELL, JOHN (1792—1882)
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