Walter Satterlee (January 18, 1844May 28, 1908) was an American figure and genre

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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

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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

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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.

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