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Samuel Palmer

1805 - 1881

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Samuel Palmer Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Palmer has received more than 323,121 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Samuel Palmer is the 1,859th most popular painter (down from 1,613th in 2019), the 4,157th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,981st in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Samuel Palmer ranks 1,859 out of 2,023Before him are Andrei Kolkoutine, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Edward Hicks, Edward Ruscha, Thomas Phillips, and George Clausen. After him are Lucebert, Antônio Parreiras, Edward Henry Potthast, Hans Scherfig, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, and William Dobson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Samuel Palmer ranks 72Before him are Rudolf Wagner, Tomás Villalba, Tomás Frías, Alexander Burnes, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, and William Harrison Ainsworth. After him are James Wilson, Michael Sars, Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz, Horatio Greenough, Angelina Grimké, and Samuel Ryan Curtis. Among people deceased in 1881, Samuel Palmer ranks 77Before him are Gustav Neumann, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Salvador Jovellanos, George Borrow, Robert Mallet, and Maurice Raynaud. After him are Kolyu Ficheto, Jānis Cimze, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Josip Jurčič, James Collinson, and John C. Pemberton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Palmer ranks 4,157 out of 8,785Before him are John Marston (1576), John Milne (1850), Steve Bruce (1960), William John Swainson (1789), Roger of Wendover (1200), and George Clausen (1852). After him are Dolly Pentreath (1692), Emilia Lanier (1569), Frank Dillane (1991), Maurice Greene (1696), Steve Hillage (1951), and Patrick Moore (1923).

Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Samuel Palmer ranks 94Before him are Peter Doig (1959), Edwin Long (1829), William Powell Frith (1819), Thomas Hudson (1701), Thomas Phillips (1770), and George Clausen (1852). After him are William Dobson (1610), Allen Jones (1937), Ben Nicholson (1894), David Cox (1783), Paul Sandby (1725), and James Collinson (1825).