Artist: Samuel Palmer
Date: 1826
Museum: Leeds Museums - Galleries (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Technique: Gouache
In 1824 Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was introduced to the visionary poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827), whose influence led him away from closely observed realism towards a more imaginative and spiritual attitude towards his landscapes. This work shows the local countryside of Shoreham in Sussex, which Palmer described as a ‘Valley of Vision’. In his landscapes, Palmer was searching for a synthesis of the spiritual and the natural world. In a letter to a friend he wrote: ‘I have beheld as in the spirit, such nooks, caught such glimpses of the perfumed and enchanted twilight... as passed thro’ the intense purifying separating transmuting heat of the soul’s infabulous alchymy …as with the moon throng’d among constellations, and varieties of lesser glories, the regal pomp and glistening brilliance and solemn attendence of her starry train.’ [Palmer, 1827]
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