Samuel Palmer

Samuel Palmer
Self portrait, circa 1826
Born	Samuel Palmer 27 January 1805 London
Died	24 May 1881 (aged 76) Redhill, Surrey
Nationality	British

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English artist Samuel Palmer was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1805. He made this painting late in his career, when his critical reputation was higher than it had ever been. It is a representation of late evening: quiet and meditative, even idyllic http://ow.ly/HO7F3

His best late works include a series of large watercolours illustrating Milton's poems L’allegro and Il Penseroso 這詩集有中漢譯

Wikipedia article "Samuel Palmer".

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Samuel Palmer

(born Jan. 27, 1805, London, Eng. — died May 24, 1881, Redhill, Surrey) British painter and etcher. He began exhibiting conventional landscapes at the Royal Academy by 14. After converting to a personal form of High Anglicanism and discovering medieval art, he developed a visionary style, displaying a mystical but precise depiction of nature and an overflowing religious intensity, united by a vivid re-creation of the pastoral conventions. In these works he was encouraged and influenced by William Blake. As his religious fervour faded after 1830, the precarious balance between realism and vision was lost.

British History: Samuel Palmer

Palmer, Samuel (1805-81). English landscape painter and etcher. The son of a nonconformist bookseller, Palmer's was a learned and religious childhood. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy at 14 and through the painter John Linnell (later his father-in-law) met William Blake. In Blake's work, Palmer saw the means to express his own mystical tendencies and he became the most outstanding of Blake's followers. In 1826 Palmer moved to Shoreham (Kent). During his seven years there he produced his most exciting and visionary work (In a Shoreham Garden, The Magic Apple Tree).

Columbia Encyclopedia: Palmer, Samuel,

1805–81, English landscape watercolorist, etcher, and mystic. Under the influence of William Blake he produced in sepia a series of remarkable visionary drawings of moonlit landscapes. Palmer is also known for his Italian and English landscapes in watercolor, his illustrations of Spenser and Milton, his translations of Vergil's Eclogues, and his etchings. He is represented in the National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, both in London.
Bibliography
See study by R. Lister (1969).

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English artist Samuel Palmer was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1805. Palmer exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of just 14. He was inspired by William Blake and Albrecht Dürer, and became a master at bridging old and new. In 2005, the British Museum collaborated with the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to stage a major retrospective marking his 200th anniversary. Here is a selection of his landscapes:http://ow.ly/XAcVR