This past Sunday marked the 203rd anniversary of Samuel Palmer ’s birth . The British Romantic panther had illusionist experience as a child , which influenced his body of work . " In a Shoreham Garden" is different from most of his other paintings , with a more advanced , less mystical , sense . For today , I ’ve prepared a few Â_flossyfacts about Samuel Palmer .
1 . First exhibiting at the Royal Academy at age 14 , Samuel Palmer could be considered a prognostic . He instruct himself to paint , receiving little conventional training and no courtly school , and had only begun badly painting 2 years prior to that first display .
2 . Arnold Daniel Palmer is most well - know for his Shoreham year , " the glad and most originative period of [ his ] life,“ during which he paint mysterious picture that portray his " Valley of Vision" as a promised land of sort . His home during those years was the run - down bungalow " Rat Abbey . “
3 . In 1837 , he embarked on a two - yr honeymoon to Italy with his bride , a Quaker ’s daughter who was 12 years his junior . Upon riposte to London , he discover his brother William had soak all of his early painting . The great expense required to redeem the paintings strained Palmer ’s tight finance even more .
4 . His wife , Hannah , was the girl of landscape Felis concolor John Linnell , whom Palmer describe as " a well Angel Falls from Heaven to pluck me from the pit of modern art . “ Palmer was the cardinal creative person of " The Ancients,“ a mathematical group that included Linnell and which was rivet on other Renaissance art and poets . Through Linnell , Palmer was introduced to the kit and boodle of master likeAlbrecht Dürerand met William Blake , who significantly influenced his Shoreham piece of work .
5 . Despite his former commencement , Palmer often had difficulty securing supporter . He also suffered dangerous unfavorable judgment of his other works in 1825 and was generally dismissed after his death in 1881 . In 1909 , his son Alfred , who wrote and editedThe Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer , destroyed a great amount of Samuel Palmer ’s early work in 1909 . He burnt sketchbooks , notebook , and original works . According to Alfred , " " ¦ no one would be able to make foreland or tail of what I burn up ; I wished to save it from a more humbling fate . “ Evidently , the death lasted for days .
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