Gallery of the Masters Fine Art Gallery

Brief Biography-Samuel Palmer was the offspring of a Baptist bookseller in Surrey. He took up painting at a very early age and was mostly self taught. The Royal Academy first exhibited his paintings when he was a young teenager and he was introduced to William Blake when he was just nineteen. Blake had a profound sway on his work. In 1826, he moved to Kent for nine years where he worked with other artists who admired Blake's work. During this period, he married Hannah Linnell whose father was the artist John Linnell. When he returned to London he went through a extensive spell of financial restraints whilst teaching drawing. His fortunes eventually picked up somewhat through his landscapes when he was in his late fifties. He died in Surrey in 1881, after his death he was mostly unknown until being rediscovered in the mid twentieth century.