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Linnell, John
Linnell, John (1792–1882). English painter. He made his reputation and his fortune as a fashionable portraitist, but was devoted to landscape painting. His wealth enabled him to patronize William Blake, and some of his early landscapes have something of the visionary quality of the master and of Samuel Palmer, who married Linnell's daughter in 1837. In the 1840s Linnell gave up portraiture and after settling at Redhill in 1851 most of his prolific output was devoted to idyllic scenes in Surrey, done in a lush and more conventional pastoral idiom than his early work. Such works were highly popular and he became immensely wealthy. In spite of his success he was denied membership of the Royal Academy, this being a reflection of his unpopularity with his fellow artists (his admiration for Blake was the saving grace in an otherwise unsavoury character).
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IAN CHILVERS. "Linnell, John." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Linnell, John." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-LinnellJohn.html IAN CHILVERS. "Linnell, John." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-LinnellJohn.html |
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