John Linnell, RA, HRSA, RWS – Piping down the Valley Wild (1872 England)

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Oil on paper laid on canvas

Signed lower left and dated 1872.

27.00inch wide    22.00inch high    (68.58 cm wide  55.88 cm high)

W. Wall, Sheffield., Rt. Hon. William Kenrick, PC, bought 1875 from W. Wall (for 762 gns).

John Linnell, British, (1792 - 1882) – Piping down the Valley Wild – dated 1872, signed lower left. Oil on paper laid on canvas, the new English made swept gilt wood frame.

Excellent. The painting has been cleaned, old re-lining. Oil on paper laid on canvas, the new English made swept gilt wood frame.

Piping Down the Valley Wild is an unusual study of two young men and a dog, sitting in some woods one listening whilst the other playing a flute.

Painted by one of the greatest 19th century artists, John Linnell. Brought up in an artistic environment, Johns father, James, was a carver and gilder. The young Linnell's artistic talents became apparent at an early age and his father was able to capitalise on them setting his son to work producing copies of George Morland (whose works were much in demand), which he was able to sell. John studied under Sir Benjamin West and renowned landscape painter John Varley, and rose to become one of the outstanding landscape painters of the 19th century. Linnell in his day commanded around 1000 guineas for his work, an extraordinary sum; his name and ability compared to and on a par with Turner, Constable, William Blake and Samuel Palmer.

gbp 10900 (Pound Sterling)

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