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 *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.

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).

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