John Linnell. John Linnell was an English landscape and portrait painter and engraver.
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, to whom he introduced Samuel Palmer and others of the Ancients. Linnell was born in Bloomsbury, London.
His father was a carver and gilder and Linnell was brought into contact with artists from an early age, and was drawing and selling portraits in chalk and pencil at the age of 10. His first artistic instruction was received from Benjamin West, and he spent a year in the house of John Varley the water-colour painter, where he had William Hunt and William Mulready as fellow-pupils, and made the acquaintance of Shelley, Godwin and other men of mark. In 1805 he was admitted a student of the Royal Academy, where he obtained medals for drawing, modelling and sculpture.
He was trained as an engraver, and executed a transcript of Varley's Burial of Saul. By 1808, Linnell moved into the house of painter William Mulready, whose wife had accused him of infidelity with both other women and boys. It appears Linnell's association with Mulready caused the breakup of Mulready's marriage. In later life Linnell occupied himself with the burin, publishing, in 1833, a series of outlines from Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and,
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, to whom he introduced Samuel Palmer and others of the Ancients. Linnell was born in Bloomsbury, London.
His father was a carver and gilder and Linnell was brought into contact with artists from an early age, and was drawing and selling portraits in chalk and pencil at the age of 10. His first artistic instruction was received from Benjamin West, and he spent a year in the house of John Varley the water-colour painter, where he had William Hunt and William Mulready as fellow-pupils, and made the acquaintance of Shelley, Godwin and other men of mark. In 1805 he was admitted a student of the Royal Academy, where he obtained medals for drawing, modelling and sculpture.
He was trained as an engraver, and executed a transcript of Varley's Burial of Saul. By 1808, Linnell moved into the house of painter William Mulready, whose wife had accused him of infidelity with both other women and boys. It appears Linnell's association with Mulready caused the breakup of Mulready's marriage. In later life Linnell occupied himself with the burin, publishing, in 1833, a series of outlines from Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, and,
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