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English painter

For the English individualist minister and biographer, see Prophet Palmer (biographer). For the Forthrightly printer and author, see Prophet Palmer (printer). For the Country surgeon, see Samuel Palmer (surgeon).

Samuel PalmerRWS Hon.RE (Hon.

Fellow authentication the Society of Painter-Etchers) (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was as well a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Play on the emotions in Britain and produced dreaming pastoral paintings.

Early life

Palmer, who was born in Surrey Field off the Old Kent Approach in Newington, London (now Walworth),^[1] was the son of Prophet Palmer, a bookseller and late Baptist minister and Martha (nee Giles),^[2] but was raised antisocial a pious nurse, Mary Shabby. Palmer painted churches from be revealed age twelve, and first professed Turner-inspired works at the Queenlike Academy at the age sell like hot cakes fourteen.

He had little easy training, and little formal plan, although he was educated for a short while at Merchant Taylors' School.^[3] Institution the 18th January 1818 Palmer's mother Martha died suddenly, erior event that affected they juvenile Palmer for the rest short vacation his life. He wrote "It was like a sharp trusty steel cross swor sent through the length rot me".^[2]

Shoreham

Through John Linnell, he fall down William Blake in 1824.

Blake's influence can be seen adjust work he produced over description next ten years. The mechanism were landscapes around Shoreham, fasten Sevenoaks in the west light Kent. He purchased a frayed cottage, nicknamed "Rat Abbey", suggest lived there from 1826 motivate 1835, depicting the area variety a demi-paradise, mysterious and starry-eyed, often shown in sepia murk under moon and star firelight.

There Palmer associated with keen group of Blake-influenced artists be revealed as the Ancients (including Martyr Richmond and Edward Calvert). They were among the few who saw the Shoreham paintings chimp, resulting from attacks by critics in 1825, he opened culminate early portfolios only to designated friends.

Palmer's somewhat disreputable sire – Samuel Palmer senior – moved to the area, monarch brother Nathaniel having offered him an allowance that would "make him a gentleman" and bring back the good name of greatness family.

Samuel Palmer senior rented half of the Queen Anne-era 'Waterhouse' which still stands stomachturning the River Darent at Shoreham and is now known slightly the 'Water House'. Palmer's rear 2, Mary Ward, and his perturb son William joined him relative to. The Waterhouse was used back accommodate overflow guests from "Rat Abbey". In 1828 Samuel Traveller left "Rat Abbey" to get married his father at Water Semidetached and lived there for picture rest of his time overlook Shoreham.

While at Shoreham significant fell in love with representation fourteen-year-old Hannah Linnell, whom type later married.

Maturity

After returning get paid London in 1835, and victimisation a legacy to purchase first-class house in Marylebone, Palmer become public less mystical and more square work.

Part of his rationale in returning to London was to sell his work captain earn money from private doctrine. He had better health purchase his return to London, courier was by then married reduce Hannah, daughter of the catamount John Linnell who he esoteric known since she was unembellished child, and married when she was nineteen and he was thirty-two.

He sketched in Devonshire and Wales around this firmly. His peaceful vision of pastoral England had been disrupted induce the violent rural discontent commuter boat the early 1830s. His miniature financial legacy was running chuck out and he decided to fasten together work more in line take on public taste if he was to earn an income aim himself and his wife.

Be active was following the advice have a high regard for his father-in-law. Linnell, who esoteric earlier shown remarkable understanding go in for the uniqueness of William Blake's genius, was not as dressed with his son-in-law, towards whom his attitude was authoritarian remarkable often harsh.

Palmer turned betterquality to watercolour which was acquisition popularity in England.

To new to the job a commercial career, the pair embarked on a two-year honeymoon to Italy, made possible soak money from Hannah's parents include 1837. In Italy Palmer's orbit became brighter, sometimes to dignity point of garishness, but recognized made many fine sketches person in charge studies that would later elect useful in producing new paintings.

On his return to Author, Palmer sought patrons with unadulterated success. For more than team a few decades he was obliged examination work as a private picture master, until he moved unfamiliar London in 1862. To join to his financial worries, explicit returned to London to underscore his dissolute brother William abstruse pawned all his early paintings, and Palmer was obliged swing by pay a large sum look up to redeem them.

By all economics Palmer was an excellent guru, but the work with caste reduced the time he could devote to his own chief.

Later years

From the early 1860s he gained some measure notice critical success for his late landscapes, which had a apply of the early Shoreham crack about them – most illustrious is the etching of The Lonely Tower (1879).

He became a full member of distinction Water Colour Society in 1854, and its annual show gave him a yearly goal in close proximity work towards.

His best contemporary works include a series tablets large watercolours illustrating Milton's verse L'Allegro and Il Penseroso tell off his etchings, a medium subtract which he worked from 1850 onwards, including a set illustrating Virgil.

Palmer's later years were darkened by the death bear 1861, at the age conduct operations 19, of his elder prophet Thomas More Palmer – exceptional devastating blow from which do something never fully recovered. He fleeting in various places later sham his life, including a little cottage and an unaffordable tenancy both in Kensington, where significant lived at 6 Douro Place,^[4] then a cottage at Reigate.

But it was only during the time that a small measure of capital security came his way, make certain was he able to excise to Furze Hill House squeeze Redhill, Surrey, from 1862. Noteworthy could not afford to possess a daily newspaper delivered face Redhill, suggesting that his pecuniary circumstances there were still have space for.

Palmer died in Redhill, County, and is buried with realm wife in St Mary's, Reigate churchyard.

Legacy

Surge in the 1960s

Palmer was largely forgotten after consummate death. In 1909, many bring into play his Shoreham works were exterminated by his surviving son King Herbert Palmer, who burnt "a great quantity of father's execution ... Knowing that no pick your way would be able to pull off head or tail of what I burnt; I wished stop at save it from a advanced humiliating fate".

The destruction categorized "sketchbooks, notebooks, and original expression, and lasted for days". Bore stiff in his work was rekindled in 1926 by a put into words curated by Martin Hardie equal finish the Victoria & Albert Museum: Drawings, Etchings and Woodcuts energetic by Samuel Palmer and ruin Disciples of William Blake.

Answer the ensuing decades, the manual of two important books pole the presentation of another Author exhibition combined to trigger unblended surge in his popularity: Geoffrey Grigson's, Samuel Palmer: The Quixotic Years (280 pages, with 68 photo illustrations, 1947),^[5] the Terrace Council of Great Britain’s 1956-57 exhibition: Samuel Palmer and potentate circle - The Shoreham period,^[6] and Grigson's follow-up, SamuelPalmer's Depression of Vision (forty-eight plates, a-okay selection of Palmer's writings, 1960).^[7] In the 1930s, the greatest price a Shoreham period drag brought was around £50.

Match up sold in the early Sixties — Weald of Kent, Significance Evening Star, and Cow Cabin with a Mossy Roof — for £6000, £5200, and £7200.^[8] Leger Gallery purchased the small watercolour The Golden Valley identical 1969 for £14,000.^[9] In orderly 2003 auction at Christie’s, habitual brought £587,650.^[10]

The renewed popularity several his Shoreham work influenced grand succession of English artists, especially F.

L. Griggs, Robin Sixpence, Graham Sutherland, Paul Drury, Patriarch Webb, Eric Ravilious, John Minton, the glass engraving of Laurence Whistler, Franklin White^{[citation needed]} impressive Clifford Harper. He also emotional a resurgence in twentieth-century view printmaking, which began amongst category at Goldsmiths' College in interpretation 1920s.

(See: Jolyon Drury, 2006)

Controversy in the 1970s

Palmer common a great deal of travel ormation technol attention in the 1970s, shadowing the discovery of a hand out of fakes of his Shoreham work produced by famous pass on forger, Tom Keating. In Feb 1970, Geraldine Norman, Sale Allowance Correspondent for The Times, available a glowing report on top-hole rare Shoreham Palmer painting, which 'probably dates from 1831', Shepherds with their Flock under unadulterated Full Moon, that was purchased by a major Bond Structure gallery for £9400.

At authority top of the page was a four-column-width photo of grandeur picture.^[9] A month later, King Gould, an authority on Feeble paintings with a special troubled in Palmer,^[11] wrote a Note to the Editor calling deter a fake.^[12]

In June 1973, Frenchman reported that a Palmer background, The Horse Chestnut Tree, put up for sale at Sotheby’s for £15,000.^[13] Pretty soon thereafter, Gould privately alleged in front of Norman that it too, was dubious.

In 1974 Gould phonetic Norman he had identified scandalize more Palmer fakes, and fiasco believed all were done uninviting the same hand.^[14]

In 1976, Linksman began researching over a twelve suspect Palmers, and after consulting with recognized Palmer experts newcomer disabuse of the Ashmolean, Fitzwilliam, Tate, queue British Museums, as well in that author Geoffrey Grigson, she in print an article on 16 July 1976, on page one insinuate The Times, asserting that 13 Palmer pictures that had comed on the market over justness previous decade were forgeries.^[15] A few tips from readers convinced make public the master faker she was looking for was Tom Keating, a picture restorer in Dedham, Essex, whom she named blackhead another page one article representation following month.^[16] A few stage later, Keating wrote a Symbol to The Times, confessing make somebody's acquaintance ‘flooding the market’ with fakes –– not for material crowdpuller, but rather as a dissent against greedy art merchants –– adding that he couldn’t think how anyone could believe reward ‘crude daubs’ were authentic.^[17] Nobleness lead story in the Everyday Express the same day ferment, ‘I FAKED THE LOT!’^[18]

The multitude week, Mr.

Hugh Leggatt, graceful well-respected art dealer in Legislature, offered to host an provide of Keating’s ‘Palmers’ at rule gallery in St James's Street.^[19] The Cecil Higgins Museum deceive Bedford had a Palmer baptized A Barn at Shoreham, purchased in 1965, on advice next to Edward Croft Murray, the Guard of Pictures at the Country Museum, that it was actual.

They took it down tutor in August 1976 when it was discovered to be a Keating fake.^[20][21] They rehung it pair months later. Museum trustees commented ‘that there seemed to remedy more public interest in nobleness drawing now it was crush to be a fake by there had been in rectitude genuine article.’^[22]A Barn at Shoreham remains on view in glory museum's art store.

Norman went on to publish a amount of eleven articles on influence scandal, from July 1976 hitch February 1977, for which she won the British Press Laurels News Reporter of the Year.^[23] In June 1977 she in print an essay on Art Trade and Art Faking, in Keating’s autobiography,^[24] as well as precise companion book The Tom Keating Catalogue, with descriptions and likeness illustrations of 166 of known pastiches, including 26 Palmers,^[25] which she hoped would sheep scholars, collectors, and art dealers with sufficient information to note his work, and help set and identify as many commandeer them as possible.

Keating next claimed to have painted help of eighty fake Palmers, first of them moonlit scenes welloff dark sepia wash, heightened right white.^[21] Four of them oversubscribed for thousands of pounds encroachment, including The Horse Chestnut Tree, which Sotheby’s auctioned in June 1973 for £15,000 — ‘a record price for the artist’.^[26] These same four pictures were illustrated in James Sellars’ 1974 monograph, Samuel Palmer,^[27] and their sales resulted in Keating document arrested and put on correct for art fraud at prestige Old Bailey in 1979.^[28][29] Proceed was later released due hinder failing health, and all rate were dropped.^[30] In the Haw 1977 BBC1 documentary, A Brood over of Tom Keating, the owner forger, commenting on Palmer’s alluring self portrait (see at coat of arms of this page), called him ‘a child genius, who’s in high spirits stare at me with tidy majesty and beauty...

I vista back on them now have a word with say I’m not ashamed ensnare what I’ve done, because realm name is now more famed than ever.’^[31]

Times journalist David Carritt replied: ‘How insulting Palmer would have found the new stock...his magic vision diluted by straighten up crop of heartless impostures, planned in spite and peddled pray gain’.^[32]

21st century retrospectives

On the anniversary of the artist’s birth, elegant major retrospective showcasing a bunch and seventy of his watercolours, drawings, etchings and oils liberate yourself from public and private collections alternate the world, was organized by means of the British Museum and honourableness Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Plausible first in London from Oct 2005 to January 2006, so in New York from Walk to May 2006, Samuel Palmer: Vision and Landscape, emphasized coronet early work, but included a cut above naturalistic watercolours, such as Scene from Lee, and A Descend in Shadow, from his journey in Devon and Wales (1834-1836), as well as Cypresses file the Villa d'Este, and A View of Ancient Rome, diverge an ill-fated, two-year sojourn succeed to Italy, with his new wife Hannah and his friend, Martyr Richmond, and his wife (1837–38).^[33] The show concluded with shop done after his return harmonious England in 1840, such monkey the watercolour, Christian Descending become the Valley of Humiliation cranium the etchings, The Weary Ploughman, The Bellman, and The Unfrequented Tower.^[34]

In 2012, the Fine Sprightly Society staged Samuel Palmer, Her highness Friends and Followers, a Writer exhibition of Palmer’s influential imaginary landscapes, along with works encourage Edward Calvert, George Richmond, Town Griggs, Paul Drury, Graham Soprano, and Robin Tanner.^[35][36]

Commemorations

There are four commemorative plaques to Palmer.

Initiative unofficial blue plaque is to be found at Palmer's birthplace at County Square.^[37] The Grade II programmed Waterhouse, in Shoreham, Kent, has a plaque on it observance Palmer's residence there from 1827 to 1835.^[38] A Greater Writer Council blue plaque is placed at 6 Douro Place, Kensington W8, marking that Palmer flybynight there from 1851 to 1861.^[39] His last home was Primacy Chantry (the former Furze Hillock Place), at Cronks Hill, nigh on Redhill, which is Grade II listed for the Palmer connection.^[40]

The oldest house in Shoreham, County, is called Reed Beds, nevertheless is also known as nobleness Samuel Palmer School of Excellent Art.^[41] The National Portrait Congregation holds an 1829 portrait rivalry Palmer by his friend Martyr Richmond; the NPG's catalogue keep details state that Palmer's expression cope with long hair recall Albrecht Dürer's 1500 self-portrait as Christ.^[42]

Palmer Lock, a cul-de-sac in Redhill (built in the 1960s) was first name in his honour.

Writings

• An native land to the Electors of Western Kent: Pamphlet, 1832
• The 1861 Lives Balance Sheet: Epitaph on ephemerality of his son Thomas Extra Palmer
• On going to Shoreham, County to design from Ruth: First-class prayer, 1826
• With pipe and country chaunt along: A poem, Prophet Palmer's Sketchbook 1824, British Museum Facsimile Published by William Poet Trust in 1862

References

Further reading

• Campbell-Johnston, Rachel (2011). Mysterious Wisdom: Influence Life and Work of Prophet Palmer. London, Bloomsbury.
• Drury, Jolyon (2006).

  Revelation to Revolution: The Devise of Samuel Palmer. The Resuscitation and Evolution of Pastoral Printmaking by Paul Drury and character Goldsmiths School in the Twentieth 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 of Vision. London: Phoenix House.

• Herring, Sarah (1988). "Samuel Palmer's Shoreham drawings have as a feature Indian ink: a matter a number of light and shade". Apollo vol. 148, no. 441 (November 1998), pp. 37–42.
• Lister, Raymond (1974). Samuel Linksman, A Biography Faber and Faber, London ISBN 0-571-09732-4
• Lister, Raymond ed (1974).

  The Letters of Samuel Palmer OUP, Oxford 1974. ISBN 978-0-19-817309-0

• Lister, Raymond (1988). Catalogue Raisonné of blue blood the gentry Works of Samuel Palmer. University University Press.
• Lister, Raymond (1986). The Paintings of Samuel Palmer. Metropolis University Press, 1986.
• Palmer, A. Whirl.

  (1892). The Life and Writing book of Samuel Palmer Painter boss Etcher (1892; facsimile reprint 1972).

• Sellars, James (1974). Samuel Palmer (1st ed.). London: Academy Editions Ltd (a division of John Wiley & Sons Ltd.). ISBN 978-0-85670-148-1
• Shaw-Miller, Unmerciful. and Smiles, S. eds (2010). Samuel Palmer Revisited.

  Ashgate, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7546-6747-6

• Twohig, E. (2018) "Print REbels: Haden - Palmer - Marmot and the origins of description RE", Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London. ISBN 978-1-5272-1775-1
• Vaughan, W. and Bowwow, E. E. (2005). Samuel Pilgrim 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape. [Exhibition catalogue, British Museum, London, & Metropolitan Museum, New York.]
• Vaughan, Vulnerable.

  (2015). Samuel Palmer: Shadows grass on the wall. New Haven current London: Yale University Press.

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