Erastus Dow Palmer
Erastus Dow Palmer (1817-1904), American sculptor, ( style, academic classicism), was born at Pompey, New York, on the 2nd of April 1817.
In his leisure moments as a carpenter he started by carving portraits in cameo, and then began to model in clay with much success. Among his works are: The White Captive (I858) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Peace in Bondage (1863); Angel at the Sepulchre (1865), Albany, New York; a bronze statue of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston (1874), in Statuary Hall, Capitol, Washington; and many portrait busts. He died in Albany on the 9th of March 1904. His son, Walter Launt Palmer (b. 1854 to 1932), who studied art under Carolus-Duran in Paris, became a member of the National Academy of Design (1897); and is best known for his painting of snow scenes.
Archival records relating to Erastus Dow Palmer are located in the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera at the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum, near Wilmington, Delaware.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)
