SIR KENNETH CLARK, a British art historian and the youngest ever director of the National Gallery, once described Samuel Palmer as the English Vincent van Gogh. There were similarities: neither was appreciated in his lifetime, both died feeling sorry for themselves and each was a master of richly sensuous colour. Samuel Palmer did his best work in his 20s in a Kentish village called Shoreham, but the paintings he was most proud of lay unseen in a folder he called "Curiosity Portfolio".
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