Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858 – March 9, 1925) was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts.
He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attends Académie Julian, Paris.
After early figure-painting and illustration, he becomes prominent as a landscape painter.
He is one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 secede rom the Society of American Artists.
For some years he is an instructor in the Women's Art School, Cooper Union, New York, and in the Art Students League, New York
In 1893 he becomes a member of the American Watercolor Society, New York.
Generally associated with American Impressionism, he is also remembered for his New England landscapes and involvement with the Old Lyme Art Colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut and his influential years at the Cornish Art Colony.
