September provides an opportunity to look back as well as look forward. The celebrations for the centenary of Francis Newton Souza’s birth culminated in the first half of 2025.

The dark, fateful career of the visionary painter Samuel Palmer is beautifully evoked, says Martin Herbert, reviewing Mysterious Wisdom by Rachel Campbell-Johnston. In 2005 the British Museum mounted ...

To coincide with the bicentenary of the great English Romantic painter Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), the Ashmolean Museum announced the acquisition of one of his most poetic watercolours The Prospect.

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