The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
John Linnell
ca. 1827
John Linnell was Samuel Palmer’s father-in-law, and while the two had much in common, there were also deep differences. Palmer was a Tory and High Church Anglican. Linnell was radical in politics and a fervent Baptist. Both, however, used representations of the English countryside to articulate religious and political beliefs. In this small landscape, Linnell transposes the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt to an English woodland.
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven · Image: Yale Center for British Art, Public domain · Text: Yale Center for British Art, CC0