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Samuel Palmer - Sunset

Sunset

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
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Samuel Palmer

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 Curfew

The Curfew (1870)

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

Wilmot’s Hill, Kent (ca. 1851)

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

Pistil Mawddach, North Wales (between 1835 and 1836)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning

The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning (1857)

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

The good farmer (1865)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Study for ‘The Shearers’

Study for ‘The Shearers’ (between 1833 and 1834)

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

Tintern Abbey at Sunset (1861)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
La Vocatella; a Chapel built by a hermit near Corpo de Cava, in the neighbourhood of Salerno and Naples

La Vocatella; a Chapel built by a hermit near Corpo de Cava, in the neighbourhood of Salerno and Naples

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
The Bridge at Shoreham

The Bridge at Shoreham (ca. 1829)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Harvest field and the monastery of La Vocatella, near Corpo di Cava

Harvest field and the monastery of La Vocatella, near Corpo di Cava (mid-1840s)

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

The rustic dinner (circa 1853)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
The Valley of Vision

The Valley of Vision

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
The Near And The Distant; From Southern Italy

The Near And The Distant; From Southern Italy

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
The North Devon Coast

The North Devon Coast

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
Cornfield and Church by Moonlight

Cornfield and Church by Moonlight (early 1830s)

Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
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