Samuel Palmer The Bright Cloud 1831-32 drawing British Museum |
Samuel Palmer The Skylark 1850 etching British Museum |
"English painter, draughtsman and etcher Samuel Palmer was a key figure of English Romantic painting who represented, at least in his early work, its pastoral, intuitive and nostalgic aspects at their most intense. He is widely described as a visionary and linked with his friend and mentor William Blake, though he stood at an almost opposite extreme in his commitment to landscape and his innocent aproach to its imagery. He had none of Blake's irony or complexity and was inspired by a passionate love of nature that found its philosophical dimension in unquestioning Neo-Platonism." – Tate Gallery
Samuel Palmer The Early Plowman 1858-60 etching British Museum |
Samuel Palmer Opening the fold 1880 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Samuel Palmer The Willow 1850 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York gift of Louisine Havemeyer |
Samuel Palmer The Weary Ploughman 1858 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Samuel Palmer Cornfield by Moonlight c. 1830 drawing British Museum |
Samuel Palmer Classical River Scene 1870s drawing British Museum |
Samuel Palmer End of Day c. 1837-39 drawing Morgan Library, New York |