Walter Satterlee (January 18, 1844May 28, 1908) was an American figure and genre
painter
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.
Biography
He was born in
Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from
Columbia University in 1863, studied in the
National Academy of Design, and with
Edwin White
Edwin White (May 21, 1817 in South Hadley, Massachusetts – June 7, 1877 in Saratoga Springs, New York) was an American Painting, painter.
Life and career
Edwin White studied in Paris, Düsseldorf, Rome, and Florence and later taught at the N ...
, in New York, and in 1878–1879 under
Leon Bonnat
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Europe
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in Paris. He first exhibited at the
National Academy in 1868, was elected an associate of the academy in 1879, and received its
Thomas B. Clarke prize in 1886. He was a member of the
American Water Color Society and of the
New York Etching Club
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, and was an excellent teacher. Satterlee died in Brooklyn in 1908.
Among his favorite subjects were Arab life and figures in the costume of the colonial period.
References
Further reading
*Simonson, George Montfort
"A Man of Talent" ''Peterson Magazine'', vol. 5, no. 11 (November 1895), pp. 1123–32.
External links
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1844 births
1908 deaths
19th-century American painters
19th-century American male artists
American male painters
20th-century American painters
American genre painters
Painters from Brooklyn
Columbia College (New York) alumni
National Academy of Design alumni
National Academy of Design associates
20th-century American male artists
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