The dark, fateful career of the visionary painter Samuel Palmer is beautifully evoked ... in this meticulous critical biography as “works of mad splendour”, the English painter – richly ...

Also featured is the work of Francis Seymour Haden, who tutored Samuel’s son, Alfred Herbert Palmer, in printmaking. Contrasting with the realism of Palmer’s work is the thread-like ...

A new book on the artist is out this Friday, Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by the art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston, and through the story of his strange career ...

A painting by Samuel Palmer has been temporarily banned from being exported from the UK in a bid to raise money to keep it in the country. The £3.8 million work entitled The Shearers should remain ...

RAYMOND LISTER, who has died aged 82, was a blacksmith, an authority on the work of Samuel Palmer, an accomplished miniaturist, the author and illustrator of 67 books and pamphlets on the arts and ...