Samuel Palmer and the pastoral vision

Journal article

Colin Harrison, Senior Curator of European Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, describes how the English 19th-century artist Samuel Palmer was deeply influenced by the poet and painter William Blake. Palmer's sublime paintings of the 1820s placed a new emphasis on the harmony of nature, reinterpreting traditional subjects entirely afresh, placing the Holy Family not in the Holy Land, but in the English countryside.

Authors: Harrison, C

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Wiley
• Journal: Architectural Design More from this journal
• Volume: 83
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 20-25
• Publication date: 2013-04-04
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1585
• EISSN: 1554-2769
• ISSN: 0003-8504
• Language: English
• Keywords: Milton: a Poem; William Blake; Industrial Revolution; Mary Ward; Paradise Lost; Shakespeare; Chaucer and Spenser; John Milton; Lycidas Comus; L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; John Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess; John Linnell; Virgil's Eclogues; Repose of the Holy Family; Albrecht Dürer; Darent Valley; Shoreham in Kent; The Valley thick with Corn; Royal Academy of Arts; London; Redhill; Thenot and Colinet; wood engraving for RJ Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil; Samuel Palmer; Landscape with the Repose of the Holy Family; Early Morning; Shepherds under a Full Moon; The Lonely Tower; The Bellman; Oak Tree and Beech; Lullingstone Park