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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
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Display artist/maker:

Samuel Palmer

Born: 1805, UK, England, London, Newington   Died: 1881, Redhill, Surrey

Painter and printmaker. Son of a bookseller. Studied under the drawing master William Wate and the painter John Linnell (1792-1882). In 1824 Linnell introduced him to William Blake (1757-1827) and, inspired by Blake's visionary outlook, Palmer moved to Shoreham, Kent, where he painted pastoral scenes and became a central figure of 'The Ancients'. He returned to London in 1835, undertook sketching trips to Devon and Wales, 1835-36, and married Linnell's daughter, Hannah, in 1837 - the honeymoon consisting of a long tour of Italy, 1837-39. His painting became topographical but, from 1850, he continued his earlier romantic spirit in his deeply bitten landscape etchings. His last plates were made for his own translation of 'The Eclogues of Virgil' which was published posthumously, with additions by his son A.H. Palmer, in two editions in 1883 and 1884

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

The Bellman PR237 Prints




 
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