The John Linnell Portrait Page
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Literature on John Linnell (1792-1882)
- Firestone, Evan R. "Lady Torrens and her Family by John Linnell." Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin. (Spring 1988): 17-27.
- Noortman & Brod: 18th & 19th Century British Paintings. [sale catalogue] NY: Noortman, 1983. [Item 12]
- Fitzwilliam Museum. John
Linnell. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.
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Lady Torrens and Her Family
Detail of center of painting
Lady Torrens wears an orange pelissse over a simple white dress.
In this slightly cropped image of the painting, you can see the family in day dress. There is a beautiful shawl drapped over the arm of whatever it is that Lady Torrens is sitting upon. The oldest daughter to the right has a tartan scarf over her day dress with the fashionable sloped shoulders of the 1820s. Lady Torren's dress is more typical of the prior decade.
