OUR GREAT ARTISTS
1805 Samuel Palmer's birth in (d. 24/05/1881)
Landscape painter, etcher & printmaker. He was also a prolific writer.
A key figure in Romanticism in Britain & produced visionary pastoral paintings (influenced by William Blake who he met in 1824)

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Mr Palmer had little formal training or schooling but began painting churches around age 12 & first exhibited works at Royal Academy age 14.
Led circle of young painters known as The Ancients, (name reflected their desire to revive an artistic golden age from ancient past.
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