- ants conversing, Seaport, Vienna Museum;
Halt of Hunting Party, Uffizi, Florence; Sobieski defeating the Turks before Vienna, Hawking Party assembled at Country Mansion, Dance of Peasants, Metropolitan Museum, New York; Sea, Fight, Figures in Landscapes by Jan Both (2), Verboom and Isaac Moucheron, Historical Society, ib.—Gwinner, 196; Havard, A. & A. holl., i. 113; ii. 182; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 381; Immerzeel, ii. 179; Kramm, iv. 987; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 454; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, i. 141, 268.
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LINNELL, JAMES THOMAS, contemporary. Landscape painter, son of John Linnell; first exhibited at Royal Academy in 1850, Temptation in the Wilderness, and in 1851, Job and the Messengers. Works: Haymakers (1862); South Coast (1864); Ploughing (1868); Reaping (1870); Country Road (1873); Sunset over the Moors (1875); Dartmoor (1876); Cherry Blossoms (1877); Redstone Wood (1879); Clearing up over Snowdon (1884).
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LINNELL, JOHN, born in London, June
16, 1792, died at
Redhill, near London,
Jan. 20, 1882.
Landscape painter;
pupil of Benjamin
West, of John Varley,
and of Royal
Academy, where he
first exhibited in
1807, Study from
Nature, and View near Reading. Began by
painting portraits, and had among his sitters
Rev. John Martin (1812), Lord Ingestre,
Samuel Rogers, Lady Lyndhurst, Lord
Lansdowne, Sir Robert Peel, Malthus,
Whately, and Carlyle. Later painted landscapes
with figures, combining great skill
in execution with a close study of nature.
His Quoit Players (1811) belongs to Mr.
Simpson, of Redhill, who gave £1,000 for it.
Mr. Linnell was noted as an engraver in
line and mezzotint; he was also a writer,
chiefly on biblical subjects. Works: St.
John preaching in Wilderness (1828-33);
Wood Cutters (1846), Windmill (1847), National
Gallery, London; Eve of the Deluge
(1847); Last Gleam before the Storm
(1848); Flight into Egypt (1849, sold in
1883 for £945); Return of Ulysses, Summer
Evening (1849); Crossing the Brook
(1850); Farm Evening (1851); Boar-Hunt
in England in the Olden Time, Sere Leaf,
Barley Harvest, Timber Wagon (1852);
Weald of Kent, Forest Road (1853); Harvest
Home, Disobedient Prophet (1854);
Country Road (1855); Sand Pits, Harvest
Sunset (1856); Gravel Pits (1857); Shepherds
(1858); Midday Rest (1865, sold in
1883 for £1,585); Wayfarers (1866, sold in
1883 for £819); Crossing the Brook (1868);
Sleeping for Sorrow (1870); The Ford
(1872); Coming Storm (1873); Hollow Tree
(1876); Autumn (1877); The Heath (1878);
Wood Cutter (1881). Collection of his
works exhibited at Royal Academy, winter
of 1882-83. His son William is also an able
landscape painter, and has been a regular
contributor to the exhibitions in the Royal
Academy since 1861.—Art Journal (1859),
105; (1882), 261, 293; (1883), 37; Portfolio
(1872), 45; (1833), 41; Acad., Jan. 28,
1882, 74; Athen., Jan., 1882, 131; Jan.,
1883, 125; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Dublin Univ.
Mag. (1877), xc. 535.
LINNIG, WILLEM, the elder, born in
Antwerp in 1819. Genre painter, pupil of
Leys; became professor at the Weimar Art-School.
Works: Interior of Tavern in 17th
Century, Stuttgart Museum; Old-Flemish
Bowling Game; Gypsy Fortune-Teller;
Spanish Soldiers playing Cards; Robbers
