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Linton, William James
(b London, 7 Dec 1812; d New Haven, CT, 1 Jan 1898). English wood-engraver. On completion of a six-year apprenticeship (1828–34) to the London wood-engraver George Wilmot Bonner (1796–1836), Linton worked as a journeyman engraver with some of the most notable reproductive wood-engravers of the period. In 1842, in partnership with John Orrin Smith (1799–1843), he engraved for the innovative Illustrated London News in addition to working for the publishers of illustrated books. In 1866 Linton left for the USA, where his reputation as an engraver of exceptional skill had preceded him and where he came quickly to enjoy both critical and financial success. However, his polemical campaign to allow the engraver a measure of artistic freedom in interpreting the work of others brought him into conflict with the ‘new school’ of engravers led by TIMOTHY COLE, who were more concerned to reproduce as faithfully as possible the subtleties of oil painting.
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