John Linnell (painter)

John Linnell (painter)

John Linnell (June 16, 1792 - January 20, 1882) was an English landscape painter.

Linnell was a naturalist and a rival to John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer. He also associated with William Blake and Samuel Palmer.

ee also

* English school of painting

External links

* [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LI/LINNELL_JOHN.htm A more detailed profile of him] (1911 Encyclopædia Britannica)

* [http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/linnell/story/contents.html The artist's 1892 biography by A. T. Story]


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