English and Italian landscapes are characterised by an unaffected truthfulness.
Linton was well versed in the chemistry of colours, and served as an associate juror in the chemical class at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He published in 1852 ‘Ancient and Modern Colours, from the earliest periods to the present time: with their chemical and artistical properties.’ He was also the author of ‘The Scenery of Greece and its Islands,’ with fifty views executed on steel by himself, 1856, 4to, 2nd edit. 1869, and of ‘Colossal Vestiges of the Older Nations,’ 1862, 8vo.
He died at 7 Lodge Place, St. John's Wood Road, London, on 18 Aug. 1876. His remaining works were sold by Messrs. Christie, Manson, & Woods on 15 Feb. 1877.
[Art Journal, 1850 p. 252 (with portrait), 1858 pp. 9–11, 1876 p. 329; Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogues, 1817–59; British Institution Exhibition Catalogues (Living Artists), 1817–61; Exhibition Catalogues of the Society of British Artists, 1824–71; Records of several of Mr. Linton's Works, which have appeared in the London Exhibitions in the course of half a century, 1872, 8vo, privately printed.]
LINTON, Sir WILLIAM (1801–1880), army physician, eldest son of Jabez Linton of Hardrigg Lodge, Dumfriesshire, by Jane, daughter of William Crocket of Grahamshill in the same county, was born in 1801 at Kirkpatrick Fleming. He was educated at Edinburgh University, and graduated L.R.C.S. in 1826. But he had already utilised four summer vacations as surgeon on a whaler in the arctic regions. He entered the army medical department in 1826, graduated M.D. at Glasgow in 1834, and became staff surgeon of the first class in 1848. After serving in Canada, the Mediterranean, and the West Indies, he was appointed deputy inspector-general of hospitals of the first division of the army in the Crimea, was present in every action up to the battle of Balaclava, and had care of the barrack hospital in Scutari shortly after its establishment in 1854 until the British forces came home. On his return in 1856 he was created C.B. In the following year he proceeded to India as inspector-general of hospitals, to which was soon added the post of principal medical officer of the European army. He held the offices throughout the Indian mutiny. His unremitting zeal was rewarded by his being in 1859 enrolled among her majesty's honorary physicians, and in 1865 he was advanced to the dignity of K.C.B. Linton retired from the active list in 1863, and died unmarried at his residence of Skairfield, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, on 9 Oct. 1880.
[Times, 12 Oct. 1880; Ann. Reg. 1880, p. 205; Lancet, 1880, ii. 639, and Brit. Med. Journal, ii. 644; Irving's Scotsmen, Additions; Report upon the State of Hospitals in the Crimea and Scutari (Parl. Papers, 1854–5, vol. xxxiii.), pp. 12, 173; Med. Direct. 1880, p. 1257.]
LINTOT, BARNABY BERNARD (1675–1736), publisher, the son of John Lintott, yeoman, was born at Southwater, Horsham, Sussex, on 1 Dec. 1675. He was probably a nephew of the Joshua Lintot who was printer to the House of Commons between 1708 and 1710. He was bound apprentice at Stationers' Hall to Thomas Lingard in December 1690, was afterwards turned over to John Harding, and was made free of the company in March 1699. He rarely used the name Barnaby, and after some years spelt his surname with one ‘t.’ In 1698 his name appears on the imprint of Crowne's ‘Caligula’ and Vanbrugh's ‘Relapse’ as ‘at the Cross Keys in St. Martin's Lane;’ but he afterwards moved to the Cross Keys and Crown, next Nando's Coffee-house, which was the first house east of Inner Temple Lane. On 13 Oct. 1700 Lintot was married at St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield, to one Katherine, who was born in January 1664. A son, Henry, was born in 1703. In 1702 he published ‘Examen Miscellaneum, consisting of verse and prose,’ and besides books on graver subjects he afterwards published poems and plays for Pope, Gay, Farquhar, William King, Fenton, Parnell, Steele, Rowe, &c. Farquhar received from 15l. to 30l. each for his plays, Gay 43l. each for ‘Trivia’ and ‘Three Hours after Marriage,’ King 32l. 5s. each for the ‘Art of Cookery’ and the ‘Art of Love,’ Rowe 50l. 15s. for ‘Jane Shore’ and 75l. 5s. for ‘Lady Jane Grey,’ and Steele 21l. 10s. for the ‘Lying Lovers.’
In 1708 Lintot was called on by the Company of Stationers to take upon him their livery; in 1715 he was renter-warden, in 1722–3 he was elected into the court of assistants, and in 1729 and 1730 was under-warden. In 1709 he published Fenton's ‘Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems,’ and in 1712 ‘Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, by several hands,’ in opposition to ‘Tonson's Miscellany.’ In some verses which first appeared in this volume, but were afterwards enlarged, Swift said of Lintot,
His character's beyond compare,
Like his own person, large and fair.
The last poem in the book was Pope's ‘Rape of the Lock,’ in its first form. In the following year, after the appearance of Addison's ‘Cato,’ Lintot published a piece by Dennis criticising the play, and Pope seized the
