Walter Launt Palmer

Walter Launt Palmer (August 1, 1854 – April 16, 1932) was an American Impressionist painter. Palmer's father Erastus Dow Palmer was a prominent sculptor, and the family residence was frequented by his father's friends, notably Frederic Edwin Church. Palmer began his formal artistic training under portrait painter Charles Loring Elliott, but it was Church, the period's premier landscape artist, who later tutored the young Palmer in landscape painting.

In 1873, Palmer made one of many trips abroad in order to work with Carolus-Duran. It was at this time that he met one of Carolus-Duran's other young students, John Singer Sargent. The artist continued to take frequent and lengthy trips to Europe, and acquired a growing interest in French Impressionism as well as an enduring attraction to Venetian subjects. First Prize, Columbian World Fair, Chicago, 1893. Gold Medal for March Twilight, Philadelphia Art Club, 1894. Bronze Medal for Across the Fields, St. Louis Exposition, 1904 . Silver Medal, Philadelphia Art Club, 1907. Butler Prize for Silent Dawn, Art Institute of Chicago, 1919. Elected into the National Academy of Design, 1887.

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