Samuel Palmer
1805-1881
British
Samuel Palmer Galleries
English painter, draughtsman and etcher. 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 approach to its imagery. He had none of Blake irony or complexity and was inspired by a passionate love of nature that found its philosophical dimension in unquestioning Neo-Platonism.
ID: 62448 Self-Portrait 1825 Black chalk heightened with white on buff paper, 291 x 229 mm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford This extraordinary self-portrait the artist drew around 1825, with hollow and haunted eyes, seems an attempt to understand the processes at work within him and projected on to the pages of his sketchbooks. Author: PALMER, Samuel Title: Self-Portrait Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , English , portrait
