Palmer, Samuel (1805–1881)

English landscape painter and etcher. His early works, small pastoral scenes mostly painted in watercolour and sepia, have an intense, visionary quality, greatly influenced by a meeting with the aged William Blake, and the latter's engravings for Thornton's Virgil. From 1826 to 1835 he lived in Shoreham, Kent, with a group of artists who followed Blake, styling themselves ‘the Ancients’.