PALMER, SAMUEL (1805-1881)

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PALMER, SAMUEL (1805-1881) ,

English

ENGLISH

landscape painter and etcher, was born in London on the 27th of January 1805. He was delicate as a child, but in 1819 he exhibited both at the Royal

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

and the British Institution; and shortly after-wards he became intimate with John Linnell, who introduced him to Varley,

Mulready

MULREADY, WILLIAM (1786–1863)

, and, above all, to William Blake, whose strange and mystic genius had the most powerful effect on Palmer's art. An illness led to a residence of seven years at Shoreham in Kent, and the characteristics of the scenery of the

district

DISTRICT

are constantly recurrent in his works. Among the more important productions of this time are the "

Bright

BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

Cloud " and the "Skylark," paintings in oil, which was Palmer's usual medium in earlier

life

LIFE

. In 1839 he married a daughter of Linnell. Thewedding tour was to Italy, where he spent over two years in study. Returning to London, he was in 1843 elected an associate and in 1854 a full member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, a method to which he afterwards adhered in his painted

work

WORK

. His productions are distinguished by an excellent command over the forms of landscape, and by mastery of

rich

, glowing and potent colouring. Among the best and most important paintings executed by Palmer during his later years was a noble

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of illustrations to Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. In 1853 the artist was elected a member of the

English

ENGLISH

Etching Club. Considering his reputation and success in this department of art, his plates are few in number. Their virtues are not those of a rapid and vivid sketch; they aim rather at truth and completeness of tonality, and embody many of the characteristics of other modes of engravingof mezzotint, of line, and of woodcut. Readily accessible and sufficiently representative plates maybe studied in the "Early Ploughman," in Etching and Etchers (1st ed.), and the "Herdsman's Cottage," in the third edition of the same

work

WORK

. In 1861 Palmer removed to

Reigate

REIGATE

, where he died on the 24th of May 1881. One of his latest efforts was the production of a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of etchings to illustrate his English metrical version of Virgil's Eclogues, which was published in 1883, illustrated with reproductions of the artist's water-colours and with etchings, of which most were completed by his son, A. H. Palmer.

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