Weg in een Italiaans berglandschap
Samuel Palmer
1815 - 1881
Medium
brush
Dimensions
454; 298
About this artwork
Purchased with the support of the Belport Familienstiftung and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
About the Artist
Samuel Palmer
Samuel Palmer was born on 27 January 1805 in Newington, London, the son of a bookseller and sometime Baptist minister. He had little formal schooling and almost no conventional artistic training, yet he possessed an instinctive gift for drawing that led him to exhibit Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy when he was only fourteen years old. In 1824 his mentor, the painter John Linnell, intro...