Irina Linnik

This article is about the art historian. For her daughter, sometimes known by this name, see Irina Levshakova.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Linnik.
Irina Linnik with painting of Frans Hals in Haarlem, 1962

Irina Vladimirovna Linnik (Russian: Ирина Владимировна Линник; 1922 – 23 March 2009) was a prominent Russian art historian. Considered an icon in Dutch art history and a leading specialist in Western European painting,[1] Linnik's work was mainly concerned with the identification and attribution of 17th-century paintings from the Low Countries, France and Italy. Over the course of her career she identified, attributed and re-attributed around 250 different paintings.

  1. ^ "Russian museum giants Irina Linnik (1922–2009) and Nikolay Nikolayevich Nikulin (1923–2009) passed away". CODART. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2022.