Pauline Palmer (née Lennards in McHenry, Illinois 1867 – Trondheim, Norway 15 August 1938) was one of Chicago’s early twentieth-century portrait and landscape painters who became one of the Midwest’s most active and energetic exponents of impressionism.  Palmer’s father, Nicholas Lennards, a Woodstock, Illinois merchant, encouraged her to pursue art.  Pauline studied at the Art Institute of Chicago between 1893 and 1898, including a one-month session with William Merritt Chase in 18 (showing 500 of 11446 characters).