"William and John Linnell: Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers - Volumes I & II" 1980 HAYWARD, Helena and KIRKHAM, Pat
$250
HAYWARD, Helena and KIRKHAM, Pat
Volume I
[206] pp.
Volume II
[170] pp.
Rizzoli
1980
11" x 9"
VG
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John Linnell (1729–96) was an 18th-century cabinet-maker and designer.
The cabinetmaker William Linnell began his career with a workshop on Long Acre at the corner of Dirty Lane. He is recorded in the Rate Books there in 1732 and 1733. His next appearance in the Rate Books occurs in 1742, further down Long Acre, on the north side of the street between Wood's Yard and Legg Alley. From 1750-55, Linnell had a large workshop on the south side of Long Acre, near the corner of St. Martin's Lane, within the concentration of luxury cabinetmakers including Hallett, Vile and Cobb, and Chippendale in that block.
In partnership with his nephew, John Linnell from the 1740s, they created grand carved and gilded furniture, and pioneered the fashion for chinoiserie in the 1740s and 1750s. John Linnell was a talented draftsman, and the cabinetmaker to be recorded as a student at William Hogarth's St. Martin's Lane Academy.