Raymond Lister
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Raymond Lister was an English blacksmith/ironworker, author, artist and the leading authority on Samuel Palmer
. He was born and spent most of his life in Cambridge. During his career he had made the artistic ironwork for many buildings, including King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and chancel gates for a London church, founded his own publishing company, the Golden Head Press, became a member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and was governor of the Federation of British Artists from 1972 to 1980. He came to widest public attention, outside Palmer circles, when he was called as an expert witness in the 1976 trial of Tom Keating
the noted forger.
Samuel Palmer
Samuel Palmer was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.-Early life:...
. He was born and spent most of his life in Cambridge. During his career he had made the artistic ironwork for many buildings, including King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and chancel gates for a London church, founded his own publishing company, the Golden Head Press, became a member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and was governor of the Federation of British Artists from 1972 to 1980. He came to widest public attention, outside Palmer circles, when he was called as an expert witness in the 1976 trial of Tom Keating
Tom Keating
For the football player of the same name see Tom Keating .For the priest and author of the same name see Thomas Keating....
the noted forger.
Books
- Lister, Raymond (1970). William Blake: An Introduction to the Man and to His Work Continuum International, ISBN 0804425310
- Lister, Raymond (1970). Decorative Wrought Ironwork in Great Britain Tuttle Publishing, ISBN 080480902X
- Lister, Raymond (1970). Antique Maps and Cartographers Shoestring Press, ISBN 0208010416
- Lister, Raymond (1974). Samuel Palmer, A Biography Faber and Faber, ISBN 0571097324
- Lister, Raymond ed (1975) The Letters of Samuel Palmer OUP, ISBN 0198173091
- Lister, Raymond (1984). British Romantic Painting Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521356873
- Lister, Raymond (1984). Prints and Printmaking : A Dictionary and Handbook of the Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain Methuen, ISBN 0413401308
- Lister, Raymond (1986). The Paintings of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge University Press
- Lister, Raymond (1986). The Paintings of William Blake. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521305381
- Lister, Raymond (1988). Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge University Press
- Lister, Raymond (1988). Samuel Palmer: His Life and Art, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521328500
- Lister, Raymond (1991). Samuel Palmer and The Ancients, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521278478
Memoir
- Lister, Raymond (1994). With My Own Wings: The Memoirs of Raymond Lister, Oleander Press, ISBN 97809906672662