ERASTUS DOW PALMER (1817-1904)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V20,
Page 644
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ERASTUS DOW PALMER (1817-1904)
, American sculptor, was born at Pompey, New York, on the 2nd of April 1817
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In his leisure moments as a carpenter he started by carving portraits in cameo, and then began to model in clay with much success
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Among his works are: " The See also: - WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
" (1858) 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 See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
, Capitol, Washington; and many portrait busts
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He died in Albany on the 9th of March 1904
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His son, Walter Launt Palmer (b
.
1854), 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
.
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