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ERASTUS DOW PALMER (1817-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 644 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERASTUS See also:DOW See also:PALMER (1817-1904)  , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Pompey, New See also:York, on the 2nd of See also:April 1817 . In his leisure moments as a See also:carpenter he started by See also:carving portraits in See also:cameo, and then began to See also:model in See also:clay with much success . Among his See also:works are: " The See also:White See also:Captive " (1858) in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of See also:Art, New York; "See also:Peace in Bondage" (1863); " See also:Angel at the See also:Sepulchre " (1865), See also:Albany, New York; a See also:bronze statue of See also:Chancellor See also:Robert R . See also:Livingston (1874), in Statuary See also:Hall, Capitol, See also:Washington; and many portrait busts . He died in Albany on the 9th of See also:March 1904 . His son, See also:Walter Launt See also:Palmer (b . 1854), who studied art under Carolus-See also:Duran in See also:Paris, became a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design (1897); and is best known for his See also:painting of See also:snow scenes .

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