John Linnell (1792 - 1882)
1792-06-16Bloomsbury, United Kingdom1882-01-20Redhill, United KingdomUnited Kingdom
John Linnell
John Linnell was an English engraver, and portrait 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.
Date and place of birt: | 16 june 1792, Bloomsbury, United Kingdom |
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Date and place of death: | 20 january 1882, Redhill, United Kingdom |
Nationality: | United Kingdom |
Period of activity: | XIX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Landscape painter, Painter |
Genre: | Landscape painting, Portrait |
Art style: | Realism, Romanticism, Naturalism |