Artist William James Linton (47 works)

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William James Linton (born December 7, 1812, London - December 29, 1897) was an English artist and illustrator. Born in London; studied with the engraver G. W. Bonner, in his youth he became famous for his drawings for polytypes and wrote in his lifetime a huge number of illustrations for English and North American books and magazines (“Stories of Wood Engraving” for the magazine “The Illustrated London News” (1846- 47), “Works of Dead English Painters” for the London Art Society (in 1860), “The Passage of Years” by Bryant, his poem “Thanatopsis” and some works of other writers). He worked excellently not only in pencil, but also in watercolor. He was one of the most gifted artists of his time, a historian and art theorist, publisher and editor of numerous democratic magazines, and took an active part in the political struggle. He was one of the largest Chartist poets and publicists, first appearing in the Chartist press in 1839. His sharp political poems and poems under the pseudonym “Spartacus” were published in almost all Chartist magazines and newspapers until 1853, that is, in fact, as long as Chartism existed. The name Linton was known in pre-revolutionary Russia, but not in connection with the Chartist movement and Chartist literature. It was usually associated with the name of Herzen. Linton translated several of his works into English, including significant passages from Past and Thought, helped with the establishment of the Free Russian Printing House and repeatedly defended him from attacks by the reactionary English press. In 1867 he went to New York, and then settled in New Haven.