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The Shearers
Samuel Palmer British
Palmer’s idyllic rural scenes owe much to the glorification of nature championed by the artist-poet William Blake (1757–1827). In this painting, made while Palmer was living in the village of Shoreham in Kent, a radiant landscape enfolds a group of hard-working shearers: the men wrestle the sheep while the women gather their wool. The hat that dominates the still-life of farm implements in the foreground was, according to Palmer’s son Alfred, "one of my father’s most treasured possessions, occurring over and over again in the works of this time."
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