Harry Sutton Palmer, RBA, RIBritish, 1852–1933 |
A very 'English' and highly accomplished and successful watercolourist who exhibited well over 1,000 paintings in solo exhibitions in London and New York during his lifetime
Harry Sutton Palmer was born in Plymouth and subsequently studied art at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London for two years, winning a gold medal in his second year.
Up to the age of 20 he painted mainly still life pictures but from that time worked almost exclusively as a landscape artist, specialising in rural idylls. Technically Palmer was highly accomplished and an outstanding draughtsman, his work being greatly admired for these qualities.
He lived in Chiswick, London, and in Surrey but travelled and painted widely - in Surrey, Berkshire, Devon, Wales, Yorkshire, the Lake District and many parts of Scotland. He visited Egypt and the Middle East in the late 1870s and again in c.1900. He also illustrated a number of books on Scotland and the English counties.
He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy - showing 33 works from 1870; exhibited 517 paintings at the Fine Art Society, 303 at the Leicester Gallery and 382 at the Dowdeswell Galleries. He held his first one-man show in 1880 and, thereafter, exhibited regularly in solo shows in London and in New York.
Harry Sutton Palmer (‘Harry’, not ‘Harold’, being his given name) was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1892 and a member of the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters (RI) in 1920. His work can be found in many museums and private collections.
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PAINTINGS (listed chronologically and thereafter alphabetically)
A
Welsh Torrent (1875), Government Art Collection, UK
Distant
View of the Pyramids at Giza (1878), Indiana University Art Museum, USA
The
Summer, Head of Ullswater (c.1880), Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, USA
A
Quiet Stream, River Mole, Surrey (1881), Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
Hugh
Courtenay’s Castle, Okehampton (c.1910), Legendary
Dartmoor, UK
Moorland, near Loch Achray (c.1900), Manchester Art Gallery, UK
Landsape
and River Scene, Leek Art Gallery and Museum, Staffordshire, UK (Work
not shown)
Returning
to the Field, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London,
UK (Work not shown)
Shen
Heath & Backwater,
Henley, Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire, UK (Work not shown)
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