​METCALF, WILLARD LEROY (1858–⁠), American artist, was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, on the 1st of July 1858. He was a pupil of the Boston Normal Art School, of the Boston Art Museum School, and of the Académie Julien, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the “ Ten American Painters ” who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some years he was an instructor in the Woman's Art School, Cooper-Union, New York, and in the Art Students? League, New York. In 1893 he became a member of the American Water Colour Society, New York.