John Linnell
(1792-1882)

Died aged c. 90

John Linnell (16 June 1792 – 20 January 1882) was an English engraver, and portrait and landscape painter. He was a naturalist and a rival to the artist John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer. He also associated with the amateur artist Edward Thomas Daniell, and with William Blake, to whom he introduced the painter and writer Samuel Palmer and others of the Ancients.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

John Linnell 1792-1882 painter lived here. William Blake 1757-1827 poet and artist stayed here as his guest.

'Old Wyldes', North End, Hampstead, Barnet, NW3, London, United Kingdom where they lived

The house and studio of JOHN LINNELL 1792-1882 Painter later occupied by CAMILLE SILVY 1834-1910 Photographer

38 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, United Kingdom where they was