Samuel Palmer and the Pastoral - Professor Malcolm Andrews

Samuel Palmer, in his Shoreham period in the 1820s and 30s, seized on the long tradition of classical pastoral landscapes, and wrested it into an English idiom. He effectively naturalised a foreign import, bringing an idyll to life in a Kentish valley, with sheep, shepherds and cornfields under a harvest moon, and the village church nestling in the fold of the hills.
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[@andrewnorris2]

This was a wonderful lecture and drew together a lot of disparate details I remember into a coherent whole. Thank you. This was an hour well spent.

[@London_miss234]

I love Samuel Palmer.

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

My recess has been this lecture.Most enjoyable and instructive.Soul Beauty Nature Light Glow Rustic." La Symphonie Pastorale"

[@paublusamericanus292]

samuel palmer painted scotland, while the photographic picture was definably midland's britain