Samuel Palmer
United Kingdom artist
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Biography
Samuel Palmer is one of the greatest British painters of 19th century, best known for his poetic and spiritual landscapes. When seventeen he met John Linnell, who taught Palmer and introduced him to William Blake.
Palmer became the leading member of the ‘Ancients,' a circle of artists who gathered around Blake. In his twenties, Palmer moved from his native London to Shoreham in Kent, where he made the most profoundly spiritual and imaginative pictures.
He made two sketching tours of Wales, around 1836 and 1837 which stimulated his fascination with mountain landscape that was to developed on his two-year Grand Tour of Italy with his wife, Hannah Linnell, the daughter of his mentor.
