Samuel Palmer

Samuel Palmer (born Newington, London, January 27 1805 - died Redhill, Surrey, May 24 1881) was an English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in English Romanticism and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

Rediscovery

He was largely forgotten until being rediscovered in 1926 through a show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. But it took until the early 1950s for his reputation to really start to recover, stimulated by Geoffrey Grigson's 280-page book Samuel Palmer (1947) and later by an exhibition of the Shoreham work in 1957 and by Grigson's 1960 selection of Palmer's writing. His reputation now rests mainly on his Shoreham work, but some of his later work has recently received more appreciation. The Shoreham work has had a powerful influence on many English artists since being rediscovered.

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1926 - 1950s - Geoffrey Grigson - 1947 - 1957 - 1960

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In 2005 the British Museum collaborated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to stage the first truly major retrospective of his work, to be staged to co-incide with the bicentenary of Palmer's birth. The show will run from October 2005 ? January 2006.

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British Museum - Metropolitan Museum of Art

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His style was frequently crudely mimicked by the art forger Tom Keating.

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Art forger - Tom Keating

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