A Memoir of Samuel Palmer Book

Unavailable for over 120 years, these essays are some of the finest written about British artist Samuel Palmer; they established for the first time the importance not just of his later watercolors but also of the mystical work of the Shoreham years.Samuel Palmer (1805?1881) was one of the most original artists Britain has produced. Still a teen when he met Linnell and Blake?meetings that plucked him from "the pit of modern art"?he embarked on an intensely personal journey that led to an astonishing outpouring of mystical drawings and later to England?s first artistic colony, "The Ancients," based in the idyllic landscape of Shoreham. This book reprints the first major writings on Palmer, which were published for a retrospective exhibition in 1881. They include a biography by his son, A.H. Palmer, and a critical appreciation by Pre-Raphaelite artist and critic F.G. Stephens.Read More