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, Samuel married Hannah Linnell, whose father was the artist John Linnell. When he returned to London, he went through a lengthy spell of financial restraints while teaching drawing. His fortunes eventually picked up somewhat through his landscapes when Samuel 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.