Samuel Palmer

Samuel Palmer
Self portrait, c.1826
Born
Samuel Palmer

(1805-01-27)27 January 1805
London, England
Died24 May 1881(1881-05-24) (aged 76)
Redhill, Surrey, England
Known forPainting, printmaking, drawing,
Notable workGarden in Shoreham,
MovementThe Ancients

Samuel Palmer RWS Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.