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#13 – 19thC Frances ("Fanny") Flora Bond Palmer (l812-1876) framed "View of West Point" oil on canvas. 23x31.75" Featured in the Exhibition "This Perfect River-View": The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands. The exhibit ran from July 20th to November 25, 2007 at the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum in Cold Spring, NY. This painting was featured as plate 9 on page 27 of the 67 page catalog for the exhibition. Fanny Palmer was one of the premier artists for Currier & Ives, the most famous publishers of lithographic prints in mid-nineteenth century America. She is generally regarded as the leading American woman lithographer of her time. Born in Leicester, England, the daughter of an attorney, she received an excellent education at a school for girls in Leicester, run by Mary Linwood (herself a well-known stitchery artist). After marrying Edmund Seymour Palmer in l832 and bearing a daughter and son, she and her husband opened a lithography business in Leicester around l842 under the company name "F. & S. Palmer". Fanny was the principal artist and lithographer, and Edmund was primarily the printer, although he may have done some lithography as well. The Palmers immigrated to the United States late in l843, settling in New York City, where they continued to produce a great variety of lithographs for other publishers, as well as in their own name. Around l849, after they moved to Brooklyn, Nathaniel Currier hired Mrs. Palmer as a staff artist and Mr. Palmer dropped out of the business. He died in l857 from a fall downstairs, attributed by colleagues and friends to alcoholism. From that time forward Fanny remained the principal support of her children, granddaughter and sister Maria Bond. "F. F. Palmer" became one of the most prolific artists at Currier & Ives, producing more than two-hundred prints portraying a wide range of subjects, including farm and suburban scenes, sporting and marine prints, still life, literary subjects, panoramic views of steamboats, railroad trains, the Civil War, and the westward movement. Fanny Palmer's prints were, and still remain, among the most popular images issued by Currier & Ives. . 23" x 31.5", 24" x 32"

19thC Frances ("Fanny") Flora Bond Palmer (l812-1876) framed "View of West Point" oil on canvas. 23x31.75" Featured in the Exhibition "This Perfect River-View": The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands. The exhibit ran from July 20th to November 25, 2007 at the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum in Cold Spring, NY. This painting was featured as plate 9 on page 27 of the 67 page catalog for the exhibition. Fanny Palmer was one of the premier artists for Currier & Ives, the most famous publishers of lithographic prints in mid-nineteenth century America. She is generally regarded as the leading American woman lithographer of her time. Born in Leicester, England, the daughter of an attorney, she received an excellent education at a school for girls in Leicester, run by Mary Linwood (herself a well-known stitchery artist). After marrying Edmund Seymour Palmer in l832 and bearing a daughter and son, she and her husband opened a lithography business in Leicester around l842 under the company name "F. & S. Palmer". Fanny was the principal artist and lithographer, and Edmund was primarily the printer, although he may have done some lithography as well. The Palmers immigrated to the United States late in l843, settling in New York City, where they continued to produce a great variety of lithographs for other publishers, as well as in their own name. Around l849, after they moved to Brooklyn, Nathaniel Currier hired Mrs. Palmer as a staff artist and Mr. Palmer dropped out of the business. He died in l857 from a fall downstairs, attributed by colleagues and friends to alcoholism. From that time forward Fanny remained the principal support of her children, granddaughter and sister Maria Bond. "F. F. Palmer" became one of the most prolific artists at Currier & Ives, producing more than two-hundred prints portraying a wide range of subjects, including farm and suburban scenes, sporting and marine prints, still life, literary subjects, panoramic views of steamboats, railroad trains, the Civil War, and the westward movement. Fanny Palmer's prints were, and still remain, among the most popular images issued by Currier & Ives. . 23" x 31.5", 24" x 32"

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