xt7qjq0stw34_5453 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection John Linnell letter to dear sir, with clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. John Linnell letter to dear sir, with clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_63/Folder_37/Multipage28785.pdf 1859 March 7, undated 1859 1859 March 7, undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5453 xt7qjq0stw34 LINNELL (JOHN).
B. 1792. D. 1882.

John Linnell was born in London in 1792, and, having shown an
early taste for art, entered the schools of the Royal Academy in his
fourteenth year, by the advice of Benjamin West, then President.
He also studied under John Varley, and made so much progress that
in 1807 he was able to contribute two works to the Royal Academy
Exhibition, viz., “ A study from Nature ” and a “ View near
Reading.” In the same year he gained a medal for modelling
from the life at the Royal Academy, and in 1809 the British
Institution awarded him a prize of fifty guineas for a landscape
entitled “Removing Timber."

While quite a young man he formed an intimate friendship
with Mulready, and for some time the two artists lived together.
At this early period of his career Linncll devoted himself to more
than one branch of art, including engraving and portrait painting
in miniature. He also gave lessons in drawing. In 1810 be
exhibited “Fishermen waiting the return of the Ferry Boat,
Hastings,” and the following year “A Scene from Nature,” at the
Royal Academy, but for ten years afterwards no work of his
appeared at Somerset House. From 1818 to 1820 he contributed
to an exhibition opened in Spring Gardens by the Society of
Painters in Water-colours, which. for a short period, admitted
works executed in oil. Linnell’s name has of late years been
chiefly associated with landscape painting, but half a century ago
his portraits were well known. Among the persons more or less
distinguished who sat to him were Lord Ingestre, F. Baring,
Samuel Rogers, Sir H. Torrens, and Lady Lyndhurst in 1830,
Lord King and Sir Augustus Callcott in 1832, Mulready and
Matthews in 1833, Lord Lansdowne and Lord Monteagle in 1835,
Sir Robert Peel in 1838, W. Collins, R.A., Whateley, Sterling, and
Carlyle in 1844. Some of these portraits were engraved in
mezzotint by the artist and published.

 

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