Portrait of Anne Law (née Towry), 1st Lady Ellenborough
Medium
watercolor on ivory heightened with gum arabic
Dimensions
unframed: 11.3 × 8.5 cm · framed: 23.4 × 20.7 cm
Classification
Portrait Miniature
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
2010.461
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
John Linnell was born and lived much of his young adulthood in Bloomsbury, where his father, James, made picture frames and restored paintings. As a boy the artist trained briefly with Benjamin West (1738–1820) and John Varley (1778–1842) before becoming a student at the Royal Academy from 1805 to 1812. Though primarily known for his landscapes, Linnell was also a prolific portraitist and executed miniatures during the first two decades of his career, learning the medium from his neighbor James ...