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.

The later work

From the early 1860s he gained some measure of critical success for his later landscapes, which once again had a touch of the early Shoreham work about them - most notable of these is the etching of The Lonely Tower (1879). He had become a full member of The Water Colour Society in 1854, and its annual show gave him a yearly goal to work towards.

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1860s - 1854

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His best late works include a series of large watercolours illustrating Milton's poems L?allegro and Il penseroso and his etchings, a medium in which he worked from 1850 onwards, including a set illustrating Virgil.

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Milton - L?allegro - Il penseroso - 1850 - Virgil

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He lived in various places, including a small cottage and then an unaffordable villa both at Kensington, then a cottage at Reigate. But it was only when a small measure of financially security came his way at last, that was he able to move to Furze Hill House in Redhill, Surrey, from 1862. Nevertheless he could not even afford to have a daily newspaper delivered to Redhill, suggesting that his financial circumstances there were still tight.

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Kensington - Reigate - 1862

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Samuel Palmer is buried, with his wife, in Reigate churchard.

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