Alias: Dick
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1834
Date of death: 1870
Category: patron, relative
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1834
Date of death: 1870
Category: patron, relative
Identity:
Richard Suydam Palmer was the same age as Whistler. He may have been the son of Courtland Palmer, Sr (1800-1874).
Life:
He may have commissioned work from Whistler, in particular Copy after Ingres's 'Roger délivrant Angélique' y011.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 ; The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. On-line edition, University of Glasgow. http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence.
