Halt by the Jordan
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Londres, Reino Unido
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John Linnell (1792-1882) entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1805, where he became the pupil of John Varley (1778-1842). Despite an early interest in landscape painting, financial pressures forced him to focus on portraiture. By 1851, when he settled at Redhill, Surrey, Linnell was financially secure enough to turn again to landscape. He had a long and prolific career, exhibiting 176 works at the Royal Academy, 91 at the British Institute and 52 watercolours at the Old Watercolour Society.
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Linnell entered the Baptist Church in 1811-12 and retained strong religious views for the rest of his life. Like Samuel Palmer (1805-1881), with whom he was friends until the former married his daughter in 1837, Linnell believed that landscape painting could be a form of religious art. Special photography reveals the presence of a baptising figure standing in the water in this particular painting, but the figure is no longer evident to the naked eye. It therefore seems likely that the image was originally intended to depict the Baptism of the people of Judah (New Testament, Matthew chapter 2, verses 5 and 6; Mark chapter 1, verse 5).
Museu Vitória e Alberto
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- 1845-1900
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