Samuel PalmerSamuel Palmer (18051881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet William Blake, Palmer brought a new spiritual intensity to his interpretation of nature, producing works of unprecedented boldness and fervency. Pre eminent scholar William Vaughanwho organized the Palmer retrospective at the British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005draws on unpublished diaries and