Erastus Dow Palmer

Erastus Dow Palmer
Born	(1817-04-02)April 2, 1817 Pompey, New York, U.S.
Died	March 9, 1904(1904-03-09) (aged 86) Albany, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Known for	Sculpture

Erastus Dow Palmer (April 2, 1817 – March 9, 1904) was an American sculptor.

Life

Palmer was born in Pompey, New York. In his leisure moments as a carpenter he started by carving portraits in cameo, and then began to model in clay with much success. His style was academic classicism. 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 at his home in Albany on the 9th of March 1904.^{[1] [2]}

Palmer's son, Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932), 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.^[2]

White Captive, Metropolitan Museum

References

Attribution

 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jakob". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Sources

• Lauren Keach Lessing (2006). Presiding Divinities: Ideal Sculpture in Nineteenth-Century American Domestic Interiors. Ph.D. dissertation: Indiana University. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Erastus Dow Palmer.

• Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Palmer (see index)
• Marble Statue Female Nude and others
• Short bio
• Painting by Walter Launt Palmer
• The Winterthur Library Overview of an archival collection on Erastus Dow Palmer.
• Erastus Dow Palmer at Find a Grave
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.