Samuel Palmer

1805–1881

*A Ruined Castle on a Hill*
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Biography

Samuel Palmer Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (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

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Samuel Palmer The Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine from the Palatine, Rome

1837–9

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Samuel Palmer The Bright Cloud

c.1833–4
Attributed to Samuel Palmer Entrance to Blarney Castle

date not known

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Samuel Palmer The Waterfalls, Pistil Mawddach, North Wales

1835–6
Samuel Palmer The Lonely Tower

1879, reprinted 1973
Attributed to Samuel Palmer Fantasy View of Lake Nemi

date not known

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Samuel Palmer A Hilly Scene

c.1826–8
Samuel Palmer The Harvest Moon: Drawing for ‘A Pastoral Scene’

c.1831–2

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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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The Ancients

The Ancients were a group of artists who formed around the visionary artist and poet William Blake in the last …
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Ruralists

Group of British artists founded in 1975 who aimed to revive the painting of figure subjects in idyllic rural settings
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Colour me British: Watercolour I

Klaus Kertess , Jerry Brotton , Vidya Gastaldon , David Attenborough , Jennifer Higgie , Silke Otto-Knapp , Matsui Fuyuko , Deanna Petherbridge and David Musgrave

Tate Britain is staging a grand survey of watercolour painting in Great Britain, from the early thirteenth century through to …
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Earthly delights: The art of the garden

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The Art of the Garden: Jemima Montagu explores the garden symbol all the way back to Eden, through the ‘close-locked’ …