George Linen -Cabinet Portrait of a Young Scottish-19th Century Oil Painting

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George Linen -Cabinet Portrait of a Young Scottish-19th century Oil Painting

Realism - Portrait of an Identified young Gentleman - … Read more George Linen -Cabinet Portrait of a Young Scottish-19th century Oil Painting

Realism - Portrait of an Identified young Gentleman - Oil painting on canvas - inscribed in verso
Dimensions: Canvas 8x6" - Frame 11x9"

Artist Biography
George (Linnen) Linen was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Scotland. He is known for Cabinet portrait.
George Linen was born Greenlaw, Scotland 1802-died New York City 1888, the youngest of ten siblings. He studied painting at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and after a decade of running a successful studio in England, he arrived in New York in 1834 and established himself as a painter of cabinet portraits. These small images, about ten inches high, were precursors to photographs, and many were created as Linen traveled across the country from Maryland to Indiana in search of commissions. (Luhrs, ed., American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, 1994) He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy and the National Academy of Design.His place of death has been listed both as New York City and a farm near Bloomdale, New Jersey. See less