linnell's

Updated: June 24, 2025

Linnell's landscape seemed to me the full expression of a healthy love of nature, possible only to a moral sanity in the man a cheery Wordsworthian enjoyment of her, which as a rule I have never found in perfection out of the English school and its derivatives; the outpouring of a robust nature which prefers to see the outer world with the spectacles of no school, and through the memory of no other man; not self-taught in the sense of owing nothing to another mind, but in the sense that what he had learned he had digested and forgotten except as a chance word in the universal gospel of art; technically weak, slovenly in style, but eminently successful in telling the story he had to tell.

William James Stillman - The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I