LINNELL ants conversing, Seaport, Vienna Museum ; Halt of Hunting Party, Uffizi, Florence ; Sobieski defeating the Turks before Vienna, Hawking Party assembled at Country Man- sion, Dance of Peasants, Metropolitan Mu- seum, New York ; Sea, Fight, Figures in 66 I Landscapes by Jan Both (2), Verboom and Isaac Moucheron, Historical Society, ib. (1 winner, 11)0 ; Havard, A. <t A. holl., i. 113 ; ii. 182 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 381 ; Immer- zeel, ii. 179 ; Kramm, iv. 987 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 454 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole hollan- daiso ; Burger, Musc'es, i. 141, 208. LINNELL, JAMES THOMAS, contem- porary. Landscape painter, sou of John Linnell ; first exhibited at Royal Academy in 1850, Temptation in the Wilderness, and in 1851, Job and the Messengers. Works : Haymakers (1802) ; South Coast (1804) ; Ploughing (1808) ; Heaping (1870) ; Coun- try Road (1873) ; Sunset over the Moors (1875) ; Dartmoor (1870) ; Cherry Blossoms (1877) ; Redstone Wood (187!)) ; Clearing up over Snowdon (1884). LINNELL, JOHN, born in London, June 10, 1792, died at Redhill, near Lon- don, Jan. 20, 1882. Landscape painter ; pupil of Benjamin West, of John Var- ley, 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 sit- ters Rev. John Martin (1812), Lord Inges- tre, Samuel Rogers, Lady Lyndhurst, Lord Lansdowne, Sir Robert Peel, Malthus, Whately, and Carlyle. Later painted laud- scapes 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 (1840), Windmill (1847), Na- tional 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, Sum- mer 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) ; Har- vest Home, Disobedient Prophet (1854) ; Country Road (1855) ; Sand Pits, Harvest Sunset (1850) ; Gravel Pits (1857) ; Shep- herds (1858) ; Midday Rest (1805, sold in 1883 for 1,585) ; Wayfarers (1800, sold in 1883 for 819) ; Crossing the Brook (1808); Sleeping for Sorrow (1870) ; The Ford (1872) ; Coming Storm (1873) ; Hollow Tree (1870) ; 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 1801. Art Journal (1859), 105 ; (1882), 201, 293 ; (1883), 37 ; Portfo- lio (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 84