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Samuel Palmer

1805–1881

Tintagel Castle 1848
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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
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
  • 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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