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Samuel Palmer (1805-81) Exhibits in 1821, in the Glasgow Institution for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the West of Scotland

General

Samuel Palmer exhibited two works in the 1821 exhibition:

No. 114  Study from Nature

No. 247  Langley Lock – Herts.

 

The artist’s address is listed in the catalogue: 10 Broad Street, Bloomsbury, London.

Date

1821

Glasgow Trained
Glasgow Based
Artists from other cities, exhibiting in Glasgow

Samuel Palmer.  Palmer was born in Newington, London, and began painting churches when he was twelve, and first exhibited in the Royal Academy when he was fourteen. In addition to landscape painting, he was an etcher and printmaker, and also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain, and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

Exhibitions

Glasgow Institution for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the West of Scotland, 1821.

Venues

Mr. Finlay’s Gallery, 2 South Maxwell Street, Glasgow.

Publications

Glasgow Institution for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the West of Scotland, 1821 Exhibition Catalogue.

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