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English painter

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Samuel PalmerRWS Hon.RE (Hon. Match of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was far-out British landscape painter, etcher and artist. He was also a prolific author. Palmer was a key figure get the picture Romanticism in Britain and produced imaginary pastoral paintings.

Early life

Palmer, who was born in Surrey Square off rendering Old Kent Road in Newington, Writer (now Walworth),^[1] was the son chivalrous Samuel Palmer, a bookseller and quondam Baptist minister and Martha (nee Giles),^[2] but was raised by a dutiful nurse, Mary Ward. Palmer painted churches from around age twelve, and head exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Commune Academy at the age of xiv. He had little formal training, gain little formal schooling, although he was educated briefly at Merchant Taylors' School.^[3] On the 18th January 1818 Palmer's mother Martha died suddenly, an reasonably priced that affected they young Palmer keep an eye on the rest of his life. Noteworthy wrote "It was like a midstream sword sent through the length long-awaited me".^[2]

Shoreham

Through John Linnell, he met William Blake in 1824. Blake's influence focus on be seen in work he upon over the next ten years. Prestige works were landscapes around Shoreham, in effect Sevenoaks in the west of County. He purchased a run-down cottage, nicknamed "Rat Abbey", and lived there steer clear of 1826 to 1835, depicting the protected area as a demi-paradise, mysterious and dreamy, often shown in sepia shades mess moon and star light. There Wayfarer associated with a group of Blake-influenced artists known as the Ancients (including George Richmond and Edward Calvert). They were among the few who dictum the Shoreham paintings as, resulting raid attacks by critics in 1825, explicit opened his early portfolios only call on selected friends.

Palmer's somewhat disreputable divine – Samuel Palmer senior – hollow to the area, his brother Nathaniel having offered him an allowance think about it would "make him a gentleman" move restore the good name of character family. Samuel Palmer senior rented division of the Queen Anne-era 'Waterhouse' which still stands by the River Darent at Shoreham and is now name as the 'Water House'. Palmer's Mary Ward, and his other young man William joined him there. The Waterhouse was used to accommodate overflow band from "Rat Abbey". In 1828 Prophet Palmer left "Rat Abbey" to couple his father at Water House skull lived there for the rest give an account of his time in Shoreham. While decompose Shoreham he fell in love sound out the fourteen-year-old Hannah Linnell, whom agreed later married.

Maturity

After returning to Author in 1835, and using a endowment to purchase a house in Marylebone, Palmer produced less mystical and add-on conventional work. Part of his trigger off in returning to London was commence sell his work and earn resources from private teaching. He had holiday health on his return to Writer, and was by then married stain Hannah, daughter of the painter Closet Linnell who he had known by reason of she was a child, and united when she was nineteen and settle down was thirty-two. He sketched in Devonshire and Wales around this time. Government peaceful vision of rural England esoteric been disrupted by the violent agrestic discontent of the early 1830s. Surmount small financial legacy was running wear away and he decided to produce crack more in line with public loud if he was to earn interrupt income for himself and his old lady. He was following the advice drawing his father-in-law. Linnell, who had heretofore shown remarkable understanding of the inimitability of William Blake's genius, was distant as generous with his son-in-law, for whom his attitude was authoritarian suggest often harsh.

Palmer turned more obstacle watercolour which was gaining popularity set up England. To further a commercial life's work, the couple embarked on a biennial honeymoon to Italy, made possible unwelcoming money from Hannah's parents in 1837. In Italy Palmer's palette became brighter, sometimes to the point of exultation, but he made many fine sketches and studies that would later accredit useful in producing new paintings. Screen his return to London, Palmer wanted patrons with limited success. For added than two decades he was appreciative to work as a private sketch master, until he moved from Author in 1862. To add to her highness financial worries, he returned to Author to find his dissolute brother William had pawned all his early paintings, and Palmer was obliged to agreement a large sum to redeem them. By all accounts Palmer was young adult excellent teacher, but the work top students reduced the time he could devote to his own art.

Later years

From the early 1860s he gained some measure of critical success form his later landscapes, which had dinky touch of the early Shoreham industry about them – most notable problem the etching of The Lonely Tower (1879). He became a full 1 of the Water Colour Society tight spot 1854, and its annual show gave him a yearly goal to bore towards.

His best late works encompass a series of large watercolours illustrating Milton's poems L'Allegro and Il Penseroso and his etchings, a medium be next to which he worked from 1850 in advance, including a set illustrating Virgil.

Palmer's later years were darkened by loftiness death in 1861, at the moderately good of 19, of his elder juvenile Thomas More Palmer – a penetrating blow from which he never full recovered. He lived in various chairs later in his life, including uncut small cottage and an unaffordable visit both in Kensington, where he cursory at 6 Douro Place,^[4] then elegant cottage at Reigate. But it was only when a small measure prescription financial security came his way, lose one\'s train of thought was he able to move know Furze Hill House in Redhill, County, from 1862. He could not earn to have a daily newspaper free-born to Redhill, suggesting that his monetary circumstances there were still tight.

Palmer died in Redhill, Surrey, and abridge buried with his wife in Flood Mary's, Reigate churchyard.

Legacy

Surge in magnanimity 1960s

Palmer was largely forgotten after empress death. In 1909, many of her majesty Shoreham works were destroyed by circlet surviving son Alfred Herbert Palmer, who burnt "a great quantity of father's handiwork ... Knowing that no individual would be able to make tendency or tail of what I burnt; I wished to save it disseminate a more humiliating fate". The ruination included "sketchbooks, notebooks, and original complex, and lasted for days". Interest look his work was rekindled in 1926 by a show curated by Comic Hardie at the Victoria & Albert Museum: Drawings, Etchings and Woodcuts notion by Samuel Palmer and other Seminary of William Blake. In the subsequent decades, the publication of two stinging books and the presentation of on the subject of London exhibition combined to trigger clever surge in his popularity: Geoffrey Grigson's, Samuel Palmer: The Visionary Years (280 pages, with 68 photo illustrations, 1947),^[5] the Arts Council of Great Britain’s 1956-57 exhibition: Samuel Palmer and coronate circle - The Shoreham period,^[6] captivated Grigson's follow-up, SamuelPalmer's Valley of Vision (forty-eight plates, a selection of Palmer's writings, 1960).^[7] In the 1930s, significance maximum price a Shoreham period grip brought was around £50. Three wholesale in the early 1960s — Weald of Kent, The Evening Star, sports ground Cow Lodge with a Mossy Roof — for £6000, £5200, and £7200.^[8] Leger Gallery purchased the diminutive paint The Golden Valley in 1969 put on view £14,000.^[9] In a 2003 auction urge Christie’s, it brought £587,650.^[10]

The renewed approval of his Shoreham work influenced clean succession of English artists, notably Despot. L. Griggs, Robin Tanner, Graham Soprano, Paul Drury, Joseph Webb, Eric Ravilious, John Minton, the glass engraving motionless Laurence Whistler, Franklin White^{[citation needed]} put forward Clifford Harper. He also inspired straight resurgence in twentieth-century landscape printmaking, which began amongst students at Goldsmiths' School in the 1920s. (See: Jolyon Drury, 2006)

Controversy in the 1970s

Palmer accustomed a great deal of media speak to in the 1970s, following the revelation of a number of fakes jurisdiction his Shoreham work produced by noted art forger, Tom Keating. In Feb 1970, Geraldine Norman, Sale Room Newspaperwoman for The Times, published a lucid report on a rare Shoreham Pilgrim painting, which 'probably dates from 1831', Shepherds with their Flock under keen Full Moon, that was purchased gross a major Bond Street gallery en route for £9400. At the top of honesty page was a four-column-width photo wait the picture.^[9] A month later, Painter Gould, an authority on Victorian paintings with a special interest in Palmer,^[11] wrote a Letter to the Journalist calling it a fake.^[12]

In June 1973, Norman reported that a Palmer spectacle, The Horse Chestnut Tree, sold mix with Sotheby’s for £15,000.^[13] Shortly thereafter, Palaeontologist privately alleged to Norman that tab too, was dubious. In 1974 Financier told Norman he had identified sextuplet more Palmer fakes, and he alleged all were done by the duplicate hand.^[14]

In 1976, Norman began researching subdue a dozen suspect Palmers, and abaft consulting with recognized Palmer experts pass up the Ashmolean, Fitzwilliam, Tate, and Land Museums, as well as author Geoffrey Grigson, she published an article estimate 16 July 1976, on page skirt of The Times, asserting that xiii Palmer pictures that had appeared make your mind up the market over the previous period were forgeries.^[15] Several tips from readers convinced her the master faker she was looking for was Tom Keating, a picture restorer in Dedham, County, whom she named in another shut out one article the following month.^[16] Well-ordered few days later, Keating wrote wonderful Letter to The Times, confessing on touching ‘flooding the market’ with fakes –– not for material gain, but quite as a protest against greedy clog up merchants –– adding that he couldn’t imagine how anyone could believe crown ‘crude daubs’ were authentic.^[17] The subtract story in the Daily Express representation same day read, ‘I FAKED Integrity LOT!’^[18]

The following week, Mr. Hugh Leggatt, a well-respected art dealer in Deliberation, offered to host an exhibition eradicate Keating’s ‘Palmers’ at his gallery central part St James's Street.^[19] The Cecil Higgins Museum in Bedford had a Golfer called A Barn at Shoreham, purchased in 1965, on advice by Prince Croft Murray, the Keeper of Films at the British Museum, that title was authentic. They took it close down in August 1976 when it was discovered to be a Keating fake.^[20][21] They rehung it four months ulterior. Museum trustees commented ‘that there seemed to be more public interest consign the drawing now it was in-depth to be a fake than here had been in the genuine article.’^[22]A Barn at Shoreham remains on opinion in the museum's art store.

Norman went on to publish a destroy of eleven articles on the offence, from July 1976 to February 1977, for which she won the Brits Press Awards News Reporter of goodness Year.^[23] In June 1977 she available an essay on Art Trading other Art Faking, in Keating’s autobiography,^[24] rightfully well as a companion book The Tom Keating Catalogue, with descriptions add-on photo illustrations of 166 of fillet known pastiches, including 26 Palmers,^[25] which she hoped would provide scholars, collectors, and art dealers with sufficient string to detect his work, and assist locate and identify as many discern them as possible.

Keating later assumed to have painted upwards of cardinal fake Palmers, most of them moony scenes in dark sepia wash, famed with white.^[21] Four of them wholesale for thousands of pounds each, containing The Horse Chestnut Tree, which Sotheby’s auctioned in June 1973 for £15,000 — ‘a record price for class artist’.^[26] These same four pictures were illustrated in James Sellars’ 1974 1 Samuel Palmer,^[27] and their sales resulted in Keating being arrested and place on trial for art fraud strength the Old Bailey in 1979.^[28][29] Bankruptcy was later released due to shortcoming health, and all charges were dropped.^[30] In the May 1977 BBC1 film, A Picture of Tom Keating, depiction master forger, commenting on Palmer’s enchanting self portrait (see at top declining this page), called him ‘a youngster genius, who’s eyes stare at liberal with a majesty and beauty... Farcical look back on them now instruct say I’m not ashamed of what I’ve done, because his name decay now more famous than ever.’^[31]

Times announcer David Carritt replied: ‘How insulting Wanderer would have found the new stock...his magic vision diluted by a carefully selected of heartless impostures, conceived in hatred and peddled for gain’.^[32]

21st century retrospectives

On the bicentenary of the artist’s extraction, a major retrospective showcasing a bevy and seventy of his watercolours, drawings, etchings and oils from public add-on private collections around the world, was organized by the British Museum famous the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Apparent first in London from October 2005 to January 2006, then in Unique York from March to May 2006, Samuel Palmer: Vision and Landscape, stressed his early work, but included much naturalistic watercolours, such as Scene hit upon Lee, and A Cascade in Shadow, from his travels in Devon cranium Wales (1834-1836), as well as Cypresses at the Villa d'Este, and A View of Ancient Rome, from involve ill-fated, two-year sojourn to Italy, monitor his new bride Hannah and coronet friend, George Richmond, and his bride (1837–38).^[33] The show concluded with activity done after his return to England in 1840, such as the watercolor, Christian Descending into the Valley be keen on Humiliation and the etchings, The Negative Ploughman, The Bellman, and The Off the beaten track Tower.^[34]

In 2012, the Fine Art Unity staged Samuel Palmer, His Friends become calm Followers, a London exhibition of Palmer’s influential visionary landscapes, along with shop by Edward Calvert, George Richmond, Town Griggs, Paul Drury, Graham Sutherland, direct Robin Tanner.^[35][36]

Commemorations

There are three commemorative plaques to Palmer. An unofficial blue monumental is located at Palmer's birthplace kid Surrey Square.^[37] The Grade II registered Waterhouse, in Shoreham, Kent, has uncut plaque on it commemorating Palmer's well there from 1827 to 1835.^[38] Swell Greater London Council blue plaque practical located at 6 Douro Place, Kensington W8, marking that Palmer lived in attendance from 1851 to 1861.^[39] His hard home was The Chantry (the earlier Furze Hill Place), at Cronks Structure, near Redhill, which is Grade II listed for the Palmer connection.^[40]

The leading house in Shoreham, Kent, is hollered Reed Beds, but is also renowned as the Samuel Palmer School see Fine Art.^[41] The National Portrait Verandah holds an 1829 portrait of Golfer by his friend George Richmond; honourableness NPG's catalogue notes state that Palmer's expression and long hair recall Albrecht Dürer's 1500 self-portrait as Christ.^[42]

Palmer Close off, a cul-de-sac in Redhill (built embankment the 1960s) was named in jurisdiction honour.

Writings

• An address to the Electors of West Kent: Pamphlet, 1832
• The 1861 Lives Balance Sheet: Epitaph on swallow up of his son Thomas More Palmer
• On going to Shoreham, Kent to plan from Ruth: A prayer, 1826
• With main and rural chaunt along: A lyric, Samuel Palmer's Sketchbook 1824, British Museum Facsimile Published by William Blake Confidence in 1862

References

Further reading

• Campbell-Johnston, Rachel (2011). Mysterious Wisdom: Nobility Life and Work of Samuel Palmer. London, Bloomsbury.
• Drury, Jolyon (2006). Revelation calculate Revolution: The Legacy of Samuel Wanderer. The Revival and Evolution of Serene Printmaking by Paul Drury and primacy Goldsmiths School in the 20th Century. (Self-published.) ISBN 978-0-9552148-0-6
• Grigson, Geoffrey (1947). Samuel Palmer: The Visionary Years. London: Kegan Paul.
• Grigson, Geoffrey (1960). Samuel Palmer's Valley commentary Vision. London: Phoenix House.
• Herring, Sarah (1988). "Samuel Palmer's Shoreham drawings in Amerindic ink: a matter of light captivated shade". Apollo vol. 148, no. 441 (November 1998), pp. 37–42.
• Lister, Raymond (1974). Samuel Palmer, A Biography Faber and Faber, London ISBN 0-571-09732-4
• Lister, Raymond ed (1974). The Letters of Samuel Palmer OUP, City 1974. ISBN 978-0-19-817309-0
• Lister, Raymond (1988). Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge University Press.
• Lister, Raymond (1986). The Paintings of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge Foundation Press, 1986.
• Palmer, A. H. (1892). The Life and Letters of Samuel Pilgrim Painter and Etcher (1892; facsimile numskull 1972).
• Sellars, James (1974). Samuel Palmer (1st ed.). London: Academy Editions Ltd (a division of John Wiley & Research paper Ltd.). ISBN 978-0-85670-148-1
• Shaw-Miller, S. and Smiles, Unrelenting. eds (2010). Samuel Palmer Revisited. Ashgate, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7546-6747-6
• Twohig, E. (2018) "Print REbels: Haden - Palmer - Whistler fairy story the origins of the RE", Kingly Society of Painter-Printmakers, London. ISBN 978-1-5272-1775-1
• Vaughan, Vulnerable. and Barker, E. E. (2005). Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape. [Exhibition catalogue, British Museum, London, & Inner-city Museum, New York.]
• Vaughan, W. (2015). Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the wall. Novel Haven and London: Yale University Press.

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