Seeing the slightly half-assed portrait of the King today prompts me to dig out my favourite - #SamuelPalmer ’s extraordinary self portrait from the #AshmoleanMuseum It’s haunting and haunted. THIS is how you paint.
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In a Shoreham Garden c1830 #SamuelPalmer

Night..
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Tonight's goodnight image is ‘Early Morning’, Samuel Palmer, pen & ink wash, mixed with gum arabic & varnished, 1825. Available as a single card or as part of the Samuel Palmer Card Collection. Sleep tight.
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Man on a Laptop (Early Morning). Hand coloured etching from this afternoon in my studio. #samuelpalmer

‘A Cow Lodge with a Mossy Roof’, Samuel Palmer, watercolour, gouache & black ink, 1829. Part of the 30% DISCOUNT sale on prints, all weekend.
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Haven't had any Samuel Palmer on here for a while.
How about The Bright Cloud which I had a look at today?
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Good morning - I hope you slept like a eucalyptus leaf-stuffed koala - I'm starting with ‘Oak Trees, Lullingstone Park', Samuel Palmer, pen & ink, watercolour, 1828.
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#NationalWalkingMonth !

‘The roads on which we walk are ideas within the mind.’ Swedenborg.

Image: 'Skylark', Samuel Palmer, 1850, The Met.

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#OTD 1826 Palmer writes in his journal “Now I go out to draw some hops that their fruitful sentiment may be infused into my figures..” 🌾

Scene at Underriver, Kent or The Hop Garden 1830s
Oil & tempera

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#OTD 1827 George Richmond writes to Palmer of William Blake’s death “My Dear Friend lest you should not have heard of the death of Mr Blake I have written this to inform you. He died on Sunday night at 6 Oclock in a most glorious manner” 💔 #SamuelPalmer

Tonight's goodnight image is ‘The Lonely Tower’, Samuel Palmer, watercolour, gouache and gum arabic, 1868.
Sleep tight.
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Celebrating International Women's Day with a painting by Hannah Palmer of Job Offering a Sacrifice on His Return to Prosperity. Hannah was married to Samuel Palmer and was a good artist in her own right.
This image in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
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Tonight's goodnight image is ‘Sunset’, Samuel Palmer, watercolour and gouache, circa 1861. Available as a single card or as part of the Samuel Palmer Collection (No. 3). Sleep tight.
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'A Hilly Scene' (1828)

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Born #otd 1805 at 5 in the morning, painter and friend of William Blake, Samuel Palmer.
Here he is, aged 14.
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The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning 1857 #SamuelPalmer

#OTD 1856 Palmer writes in his notes “There is an ancient brick house which stands back in the High Street of Margate, whence, eighty or ninety years since, my grandmother leaped in affright from a first-floor window”

A Hilly Scene c.1826–8 (fragment)
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#OTD 1858 Over a sketch of twilight Palmer writes 'Finest twilights (with moon) of all I think which add to full splendour of colour the mystery of transparent vaporous gloom. In these days, there is an immense power of light”

Sabrina 1856
Watercolor and gouache
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