Samuel Palmer (1805-1880), English painter, watercolourist, and etcher. He was strongly influenced by the visionary artist and poet William Blake; his own mystical, ecstatic works, such as the painting Magic Apple Tree (1830, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), abound in images of full moons, lushly fertile fields, rich gardens, and sleeping shepherds. Palmer's late works, both etchings and watercolours, are highly skilled but more conventional in style.