Erastus Dow Palmer

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Erastus Dow Palmer

Erastus Dow Palmer (born April 2, 1817 in Pompey , New York State , USA , † March 9, 1904 in Albany , USA ) was an American cameo cutter and sculptor .

Life

Palmer grew up in a rural setting and only had six months of formal schooling before he began training as a carpenter. At the age of nine he was already building a model of a sawmill and at the age of 17 he left Pompey. His wanderings ended in Amsterdam (City, New York) where he worked as a carpenter, wood carver and carpenter.

In 1843, Palmer married his second wife in Utica, New York , after his first wife died in childbed. In the same year he made a cameo for his wife, which was followed by around 200 more in the following two years. In 1846 he moved to Albany with his family. There he began his career as a sculptor. He mainly made reliefs for churches and portrait busts. At an exhibition in 1850 at the National Academy of Design in New York City, his work attracted great attention, so that he was made an honorary member of the academy.

In the years that followed, Palmer's hand created a series of portrait busts and large-format statues made of bronze or marble. In 1873 he went to Paris for some time . There he began the bronze statue Chancellor Robert R. Livingston , commissioned by his home state, now in the United States Capitol crypt in the Capitol of the US federal capital Washington, DC is located.

Palmer died at his home in Albany. The painter Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1934), who studied in Paris, is known from his four children . He became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1897 .

Other works

  • The Dawn of Christianity , marble, 1855. Metropolitan Museum of Art , Manhattan , New York City.
  • The White Captive , marble, 1858. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City.
  • Peace in Bondage , marble relief in the frame, 1863. Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York State.
  • Peace in Bondage , modified marble relief, 1868. Maryland State Art Collection, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Angel at the Sepulcher , 1865. Albany Rural Cemetery , Albany, New York State.

literature

  • Catalog of the Palmer Marbles at the Hall Belonging to the Church of Divine Unity (Broadway, Manhattan). Munsell, Albany (New York), USA 1856.
  • J. Carson Webster: Erastus D. Palmer: Sculpture - Ideas . University of Delaware Press, Newark, Delaware 1983, ISBN 0-87413-202-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dawn in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on August 30, 2015, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Erastus Dow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameo maker and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Pompey , USA
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1904
Place of death Albany , USA