Harold Sutton Palmer
{{short description|English painter}}
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Harold "Harry" Sutton Palmer (28 December 1854 – 8 May 1933) was an English watercolour landscape painter and illustrator.{{cite news|title=Native of Plymouth; Death of Eminent Water-Colour Painter|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk|access-date=24 May 2017|work=Western Morning News (Devon, UK)|date=10 May 1933}}
Life and work
File:Harry Sutton Palmer - A stream near Shalford (1906).JPG (watercolor, 1906)]]
Sutton Palmer was born in Plymouth in Devon, England, and studied at the Royal College of Art for two years, winning a gold medal for his work. He exhibited in London - at the Royal Academy (RA) from 1870, Fine Art Society, Leicester Galleries and Dowdeswell galleries - and in New York City. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) from 1892 and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) from 1920.
He illustrated several travel books for the publisher A & C Black (see below), as well as postcards for A & C Black and Salmon.[http://www.collections.co.uk/postcards/subject/artists/sp.html Salmon postcards]
Sutton Palmer specialised in idyllic rustic landscapes painted in watercolours. He lived in London but painted widely in England (e.g. Surrey, Berkshire, Devon, The Lake District, Yorkshire) and Scotland. His works can now be found in art galleries such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Leek Art Gallery and Wardown Park Museum, Luton, and also in private collections.
Sutton Palmer married Maud Moore in 1889 at San Jose, California.{{cite book|last1=Lekisch|first1=Barbara|title=Embracing Scenes about Lakes Tahoe & Donner: Painters, Illustrators & Sketch Artists 1855-1915|date=2003|publisher=Great West Books|location=Lafayette, California|pages=137–138}} He resided in California for short periods, and painted a series of California scenes.
Illustrated books
- Bradley, A. G. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924014083830 The rivers & streams of England] (London, A. and C. Black, 1909){{cite journal|title=brief notices of The Rivers and Streams of England|journal=The Book Review Digest|volume=VI|issue=12|date=December 1910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcROAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA43|page=43}}
- Moncrieff, A. R. H. [https://archive.org/details/bonniescotlandpa00moncuoft Bonnie Scotland] (London A. & C. Black, 1912). 1st edition, 1904.{{cite journal|title=Review of Bonnie Scotland, painted by Sutton Palmer, described by A. R. Hope Moncrieff|journal=The Athenaeum |issue=4031|date=January 28, 1905|page=118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MW0vAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA118}}
- Austin, Mary Hunter. [https://archive.org/details/californialandof00austrich California : the land of the sun] (London : A. and C. Black, 1914).
- Mitton, G. E. Buckinghamshire and Berkshire (A & C Black, 1920)
- Moncrieff, A. R. H. [https://archive.org/details/surreypainted00moncuoft Surrey] (London A. & C. Black, 1922).
- Sutton Palmer, H. Devon: Water colours (A & C Black, 1951).
- Sutton Palmer "Surrey Water-Colours" (A & C Black, 1915) Black's Water-Colour Series.
Notes and references
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External links
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- {{Gutenberg author |id=42913|name=Sutton Palmer}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Sutton Palmer |sopt=t}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120305101846/http://www.victorianartgallery.co.uk/artist.php?artist_id=61 Sutton Palmer] (Biog. at victorianartgallery.co.uk)
- [http://www.bentonfineart.com/pdetail.php?id=310 Sutton Palmer] (Biog at bentonfineart.com)
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/field/subjec/searchterm/Palmer,%20Sutton,%201854-1933%20--%20Exhibitions/mode/exact Sutton Palmer exhibition catalogs]
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Category:19th-century English painters
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Category:English landscape painters
Category:English watercolourists
Category:Artists from Plymouth, Devon