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Samuel Palmer
Samuel Palmer

Samuel Palmer

English, 1805-1881
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Samuel Palmer was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

Palmer, who was born in Surrey Square off the Old Kent Road in Newington, London, was the son of a bookseller and sometime Baptist minister, and was raised by a pious nurse. Palmer painted churches from around age twelve, and first exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy at the age of fourteen. He had little formal training, and little formal schooling, although he was educated briefly at Merchant Taylors' School.

Through John Linnell, he met William Blake in 1824. Blake's influence can be seen in work he produced over the next ten years and generally reckoned to be his greatest. The works were landscapes around Shoreham, near Sevenoaks in the west of Kent.

From the early 1860s he gained some measure of critical success for his later landscapes, which had a touch of the early Shoreham work about them – most notable is the etching of The Lonely Tower (1879). He became a full member of the Water Colour Society in 1854, and its annual show gave him a yearly goal to work towards.

His best late works include a series of large watercolours illustrating Milton's poems L'Allegro and Il Penseroso and his etchings, a medium in which he worked from 1850 onwards, including a set illustrating Virgil.

Palmer's later years were darkened by the death in 1861, at the age of 19, of his elder son Thomas More Palmer – a devastating blow from which he never fully recovered. He lived in various places later in his life, including a small cottage and an unaffordable villa both in Kensington, where he lived at 6 Drouro Place, then a cottage at Reigate. But it was only when a small measure of financial security came his way, that was he able to move to Furze Hill House in Redhill, Surrey, from 1862. He could not afford to have a daily newspaper delivered to Redhill, suggesting that his financial circumstances there were still tight.

Samuel Palmer died in Redhill, Surrey, and is buried with his wife in Reigate churchyard.

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The Valley of Dolwyddelan

The Valley of Dolwyddelan

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Evening, Cattle Watering

Evening, Cattle Watering

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Harlech Castle

Harlech Castle

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Italian Hill Town

Italian Hill Town (after 1838)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Ivy Cottage, Shoreham

Ivy Cottage, Shoreham

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens (ca. 1848)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Llwyngwynedd and Part of Llyn-y-ddina Between Capel Curig and Beddegelert, North Wales

Llwyngwynedd and Part of Llyn-y-ddina Between Capel Curig and Beddegelert, North Wales (1835)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Mount Siabod from Tyn-y-Coed near Capel Curig

Mount Siabod from Tyn-y-Coed near Capel Curig

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Pistil Mawddach, North Wales

Pistil Mawddach, North Wales (between 1835 and 1836)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Rocky Landscape in Wales

Rocky Landscape in Wales (1835)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Evening in Italy—the Deserted Villa

Evening in Italy—the Deserted Villa (1845)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Scene in Wales

Scene in Wales

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Sunset

Sunset (ca. 1861)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
The Barns

The Barns

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
The Rock Slip near Boscastle

The Rock Slip near Boscastle

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
The Timber Wain

The Timber Wain (between 1833 and 1834)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Rustic Contentment

Rustic Contentment

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
The Weald of Kent

The Weald of Kent (between 1833 and 1834)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Timber Wagon Crossing a Stream

Timber Wagon Crossing a Stream

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Tintern Abbey at Sunset

Tintern Abbey at Sunset (1861)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Underriver Hills, near Sevenoaks, Kent, from the Grounds of J. Herries, Esq.

Underriver Hills, near Sevenoaks, Kent, from the Grounds of J. Herries, Esq. (ca. 1840)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
View from Rook’s Hill, Kent

View from Rook’s Hill, Kent (1843)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
Wilmot’s Hill, Kent

Wilmot’s Hill, Kent (ca. 1851)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
The rustic dinner

The rustic dinner (circa 1853)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Figurative
A Shepherd and his Flock under the Moon and Stars

A Shepherd and his Flock under the Moon and Stars (ca. 1827)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Abstract
The Bright Cloud

The Bright Cloud

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Abstract
The Crescent Moon

The Crescent Moon

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Abstract
Summer Storm near Pulborough, Sussex

Summer Storm near Pulborough, Sussex (circa 1851)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
The early ploughman

The early ploughman (1858-1860)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
The good farmer

The good farmer (1865)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Landscape
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