Samuel Rostill Lines (15 January 1804 – 9 November 1833; sometimes listed as Samuel Restell Lines) was an

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painter and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicate ...

. Born in

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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 education, art teacher, and an early member of the Birmingham School (landscape artists), Birmingham School of landscape painters. A significant figure in the de ...

, one of the founders of the academy for the training of artists that would eventually evolve into the

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (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, Birmingham, St Pa ...

and

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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

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– but died in Birmingham at the age of only twenty nine. His brothers Frederick Thomas Lines and Henry Harris Lines 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

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, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and

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1804 births 1833 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English watercolourists Painters from Birmingham, West Midlands 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub

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