Samuel Palmer

1805–1881

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Biography

Samuel Palmer Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) 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.

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Artworks

Samuel Palmer A Hilly Scene

c.1826–8

N05805

Samuel Palmer The Harvest Moon: Drawing for ‘A Pastoral Scene’

c.1831–2

View by appointment N03699

Samuel Palmer Coming from Evening Church

1830

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art N03697

Samuel Palmer Moonlight, a Landscape with Sheep

c.1831–3

View by appointment N03700

Samuel Palmer The Gleaning Field

c.1833

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art N04842

Samuel Palmer Evening, engraved by Welby Sherman

1834

View by appointment N03869

Samuel Palmer The Bright Cloud

c.1833–4

N03312

Samuel Palmer The Lonely Tower

1879, reprinted 1973

View by appointment T06518

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Poem of the Month: Moniza Alvi

Moniza Alvi presents her poem on Samuel Palmer's Coming From Evening Church.

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