John Linnell (painter)

John Linnell ( born June 16, 1792 in Bloomsbury, London today, † January 20, 1882 in Redhill, Surrey ) was an English painter.

Linnell studied under John Varley, already painted of his 15th year of landscapes, 1824-1838, however, a large number of good images, then almost exclusively landscapes.

Of the imitation of Thomas Gainsborough's starting, he finally came to full originality. Linnell put the emphasis on the sky, the clouds and the play of light; His paintings combine grace and lifelike view, with an excellent treatment. The South Kensington Museum has a painting of a meadow with flowers be picked girls, the National Gallery, the images wooden bat and the windmill. He died on 20 January 1882.

Selections

• Lunch break, 1865, canvas, 93 × 138 cm.
• Richard Trevithick, 1816, canvas, 64 × 53 cm.
• Sand pit of Kensington, 1812, canvas, 71 × 107 cm.
• Flock, 1863, canvas, 71 x 100 cm.
• Self-Portrait, about 1852, canvas, 89 × 69 cm.
• Sir Robert Peel, 1838, canvas, 45 × 37 cm.
• Wheat, 1860, canvas, 94 × 140 cm.
• William Mulready, 1833, canvas, 32 × 25 cm.

His sons Thomas G. Linnell and William were also excellent landscape painter.