Artist Samuel Palmer: Entranced by Nature
“The Lonely Tower” by Samuel Palmer (before 1881); watercolor, gouache, and gum arabic on board. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. © The HuntingtonRural romantic “A Memoir of Samuel Palmer,” by Samuel Palmer, A.H. Palmer, and F.G. Stephens (Getty Publications, 96 pp., $10.95) by Bondo Wyszpolski In addition to its often meaty and handsome art catalogues, the Getty has since 2018 been releasing a series of low-priced, small-format paperbacks under the general title of “Lives of the Artists.” To date, there have been 21 announced, with the majority focused on artists who are very well known, such as Raphael and Rubens, Van Gogh and Rembrandt. But as the series expands, and let us hope that it will, lesser-known artists are joining the pack, and that’s a good thing. For example, it’s easier to find a monograph devoted to Michelangelo than to Artemisia Gentileschi, the latter volume being one of the newer additions. Also new is “A Memoir of Samuel Palmer,” a British Romantic landscape painter who lived from 1805 to 1881, and who came of age when Turner and Constable were the big fish in English art. Palmer was born in South London, his father…
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