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Samuel Palmer

1805–1881

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15 artworks by Samuel Palmer
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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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The Bright Cloud

Samuel Palmer
c.1833–4
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Coming from Evening Church

Samuel Palmer
1830
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A Church among Trees

Samuel Palmer
c.1830
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The Harvest Moon: Drawing for ‘A Pastoral Scene’

Samuel Palmer
c.1831–2
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Moonlight, a Landscape with Sheep

Samuel Palmer
c.1831–3
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Landscape, Girl Standing

Samuel Palmer
c.1826
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The Weary Ploughman

Samuel Palmer
1858
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Evening, engraved by Welby Sherman

Samuel Palmer
1834
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