1880
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Shining River is a 1880 watercolor by Samuel Palmer, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a quiet riverside scene at sunset. A lone tree stands near the water, its branches glowing in the fading light. In the foreground, cows drink from the river while a person leads a horse along the bank. The sky shifts from soft pink near the horizon to warm gold above, with distant hills fading into blue. The artist used loose brushstrokes to capture the light on the water and trees, making everything feel alive yet dreamy. The colors are bright but natural, like a real evening glow. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this in person.
A small group of cattle stands partially submerged in a calm, meandering river in this 1880 painting by Samuel Palmer, a replica with minor differences of an earlier version.
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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. Palmer was a key figure in…
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