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Additional Notes: This is not a modern print. This impression is more than 135 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp.
Extra Information: A bespectacled man, full-length, wearing skullcap, ruff and dark robes, standing in a room and reading a letter whilst rubbing his chin; on the left, a pitcher on a low table.
Artist Biography: Sir James Dromgole Linton was an English painter in oil and watercolour and a lithographer. He was knighted in 1885. Linton was educated at Leigh's School of Art. At the beginning of his career he was an illustrator and lithographer for The Graphic. One of his most famous paintings is "The Marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of Albany," which was done in oil in 1885 at the command of Queen Victoria. (The marriage depicted is that of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany in 1882.) Charles T. Jacoby, brother of Sir James Alfred Jacoby, commissioned a series of five oil paintings illustrating the 'History of a Soldier of the Sixteenth Century' with the titles "The Declaration of War," "The Benediction," "The Surrender," "Victorious," and "The Banquet." Linton was elected an associate in 1867 and a member in 1870 of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. He was president of the Royal Institute from 1884 to 1899 and then from 1909 until his death. In 1897 he won the Jubilee Medal. The artist J.W.R. Linton was the second of eleven children of Sir James Linton and his wife Harriet Maria, née Allen. The miniaturist Violet Linton was the fifth child. There were 6 sons and 5 daughters. Two of the sons, Edward and Tom, died in April 1877 and another son, Walter, died in October 1877 during an epidemic of scarlet fever. Of the 3 sons that survived childhood, Henry emigrated to Argentina, James emigrated to Australia, and Robert emigrated to South Africa. The 5 daughters survived childhood and remained in England.
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