Samuel Lines
English designer, painter and art teacher (1778–1863) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For his son, the English painter and illustrator, see Samuel Rostill 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.[1]
A significant figure in the development of art in Birmingham during its rapid growth in the early nineteenth century, Lines pioneered the teaching of drawing and painting in the town and was one of the founders of the life drawing academy that would eventually evolve into the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and Birmingham School of Art.