Private collection, USA
Shepherds
- Oil on paper laid down on panel
- 6 ½ × 8 ¾ inches · 165 × 222 mm
- Signed: ‘J. Linnell’
Inscribed on a label on the verso: ‘Shepherds by John Linnell fecit /Lent by James Orrock / 8 links up right of fireplace’
Painted c.1830-5
Collections
- James Orrock (1829-1913) 48 Bedford Square, London;
- R. C. Vose, Boston;
- Private collection to 2002;
- Private collection, USA, to 2020;
- Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker Ltd, 2020.
Exhibitions
- London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of works by the Old Masters and by deceased masters of the British School including a special selection from the works of John Linnell and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Winter 1883, no. no.99 ‘Shepherds.’