John Linnell: A Centennial Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Yale Center for British Art

by Katharine Crouan

John Linnell's career as a landscape and portrait painter lasted almost the entire nineteenth century. During its latter half he appears as England's most successful, certainly its wealthiest, landscape artist. But with the aesthetic fashions of the 1890s his reputation declined. Since then comparisons with William Blake, his early friend, and Samuel Palmer, his son-in-law, have outweighed consideration of Linnell's art on its own merits. This book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521289238
• ISBN13: 9780521289238
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"