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| John Linnell Portrait of a Man 1816 oil on panel Museums Sheffield, Yorkshire |
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| John Linnell Portrait of Miss Puxley 1826 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Linnell Portrait of Miss Jane Puxley 1826 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Linnell Woody Landscape 1824 oil on panel Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
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| John Linnell Cornfield Cradle 1839 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| John Linnell Harvesting 1857 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
"John Linnell was brought up in an artistic environment. His father, James, was a carver and gilder. Young Linnell's artistic talents became apparent at an early age and his father set him to work producing copies of George Morland, whose works were much in demand in the early years of the nineteenth century. After studying with landscape painter John Varley, John Linnell entered the Royal Academy School in 1805 at age thirteen. Upon completion of his Royal Academy training Linnell established himself as a successful London portrait painter. Toward the end of the 1840s he was sufficiently prosperous to abandon portraiture in favor of landscapes, a genre he valued much more highly. In 1851 he moved to the Surrey countryside, where so many of his later works were set. He was quick to recognize and encourage original talent. Linnell vigorously championed William Blake's work and became his last patron, commissioning works for which there was little public demand. He took the seventeen-year-old Samuel Palmer (his future son-in-law) under his wing, providing instruction, advice and encouragement. He also supported the Pre-Raphaelites (Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais) at the inception of their movement when there was much opposition to them."
– adapted from biographical notes at the Fitzwilliam Museum
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| John Linnell Reapers - Noonday Rest 1865 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| John Linnell Study for Reaping 1858 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Linnell The Cornfield Shelter 1862 oil on canvas Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery, Kent |
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| John Linnell The Woodcutters 1876 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| John Linnell Study of a Tree (Study from Nature) 1806 oil on panel Tate Britain |
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| John Linnell The Timber Wagon 1872 oil on canvas Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| John Linnell Windsor Forest (Wood-Cutting in Windsor Forest) 1834-35 oil on panel Tate Britain |
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| John Linnell The Sandpits 1856 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| John Linnell The Rising of the River 1857 oil on canvas Bury Art Museum, Manchester |