Nineteenth-century French and English paintings, drawings and oil sketches - works by such artists as Courbet, Constable, Delacroix, Gericault, Corot, Rousseau, Conture and Daubigny - are presented in this book, a documentation of some of the holdings of Karen B. Cohen, a noted New York collector.[...]
Palmer began his career as an artist at an early age. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of fourteen (one of his sketchbooks from this time is in the British Museum's collection). In 1824, he met William Blake whose influence helped confirm his visionary approach to art. Palmer retre[...]