feeling, and are rich and glowing in colour. Linnell commanded large prices for his pictures, and about 1850 he purchased a property at Redhill, Surrey, where he lived till his death on 20 January 1882, painting with unabated powers until within the last few years of his life. He devoted himself to painting landscapes notably of the North Downs and Kentish Weald. His leisure was occupied with a study of the Bible in the original, and he published several pamphlets and treatises of Biblical criticism. Linnell was one of the best friends and kindest patrons of William Blake. He gave him the two largest commissions he received for single series of designs—£150 for drawings and engravings of The Inventions to the Book of Job, and a like sum for those illustrative of Dante Aligheri. He was a friend of the painter Edward Thomas Daniell. A blue plaque commemorates Linnell at Old Wyldes' at North End, Hampstead. The plaque mentions that William Blake stayed with Linnell as his guest. Gallery Legacy Linnell has over 150 oil paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom. References Sources Further reading External links Linnell online (ArtCyclopedia) The John Linnell Archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1792 births 1882 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English landscape painters English watercolourists English portrait painters People from Bloomsbury Painters from London 19th-century English male artists