Willian Linnell (1826 – 1906) was a British painter and draftsmen. London born, he was the son of the painter John Linnell (1792-1882).^[1]

Linnell is particularly noted for his 1840 drawing of Smugglerius, which is an écorché sculpture of a man posed in imitation of the ancient Roman sculpture known as the Dying Gaul.^[2]

His work is held in the permanent collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University, the Tate Museum in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..^[3][4]