Samuel Rostill Lines (15 January 1804 – 9 November 1833; sometimes listed as Samuel Restell Lines) was an
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painter and
illustrator
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.
Born in
Birmingham
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, he was the third son of
Samuel Lines
Samuel Lines (1778 – 22 November 1863) was an English designer, painter and art teacher, and an early member of the Birmingham School of landscape painters.
A significant figure in the development of art in Birmingham during its rapid grow ...
, one of the founders of the academy for the training of artists that would eventually evolve into the
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
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and
Birmingham School of Art
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. The younger Lines studied drawing and painting under his father and showed great promise in illustrating landscapes and buildings – having work exhibited at the
Royal Academy
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– but died in Birmingham at the age of only twenty nine.
His brothers
Frederick Thomas Lines
Frederick Thomas Lines (26 July 1808 – 10 April 1898) was an English portrait painter in addition to experimenting in studies from nature and landscape. Lines was known to be a master of the medium of watercolour.
Lines was the youngest s ...
and
Henry Harris Lines
Henry Harris Lines (born 1800 or 1801, died 1889) was a landscape artist and archaeologist, and the eldest son of Birmingham artist and drawing master Samuel Lines (1778–1863). There are a number of Henry's works stored in the permanent ...
were also artists.
He is buried in his father's grave at St. Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham.
Examples of his work feature in the collections of the
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a re ...
,
Victoria and Albert Museum
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,
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local ...
and
Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery
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.
Further reading
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References
1804 births
1833 deaths
19th-century English painters
English male painters
English watercolourists
Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands
19th-century English male artists
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