Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Landscapes by Samuel Palmer, 19th century

Samuel Palmer
The Bright Cloud
1831-32
drawing
British Museum

Samuel Palmer
The Skylark
1850
etching
British Museum

"English painter, draughtsman and etcher Samuel Palmer was a key figure of English Romantic painting who represented, at least in his early work, its pastoral, intuitive and nostalgic aspects at their most intense. He is widely described as a visionary and linked with his friend and mentor William Blake, though he stood at an almost opposite extreme in his commitment to landscape and his innocent aproach to its imagery. He had none of Blake's irony or complexity and was inspired by a passionate love of nature that found its philosophical dimension in unquestioning Neo-Platonism."  Tate Gallery

Samuel Palmer
The Early Plowman
1858-60
etching
British Museum

Samuel Palmer
Opening the fold
1880
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Samuel Palmer
The Willow
1850
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
gift of Louisine Havemeyer

Samuel Palmer
The Weary Ploughman
1858
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Samuel Palmer
Cornfield by Moonlight
c. 1830
drawing
British Museum

Samuel Palmer
Classical River Scene
1870s
drawing
British Museum

Samuel Palmer
End of Day
c. 1837-39
drawing
Morgan Library, New York