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| Keywords: Henry Inman.jpg Henry Inman head-and-shoulders portrait slightly to the left Artist painter Henry Inman 1801-46 was an American portrait genre and landscape painter He was born at Utica N Y October 20 1801 and was for seven years an apprentice pupil of John Wesley Jarvis in New York City He was the first vice president of the National Academy of Design He excelled in portrait painting but was less careful in genre pictures Among his landscapes are Rydal Falls England October Afternoon and Ruins of Brambletye His genre subjects include Rip Van Winkle The News Boy and Boyhood of Washington; his portraits those of Henry Rutgers and Fitz-Greene Halleck in the New York Historical Society of Bishop White Chief Justices Marshall and Nelson Jacob Barker William Wirt Audubon DeWitt Clinton Martin Van Buren and William H Seward Inman painted moe than 30 Native American portraits of which nearly a dozen are in the collection of the White House In the Metropolitan Museum New York are his Martin Van Buren The Young Fisherman William C Maccready as William Tell During a year spent in England in 1844-45 he painted Wordsworth Macaulay John Chambers and other celebrities He returned to America in failing health and at the time of his death January 17 1846 was engaged on a series of historical pictures for the Capitol at Washington This summary was created using Commons SumItUp Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Daguerreotype collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3c10165 between 1844 1846 creator Mathew Brady LOC-image cph 3c10165 File Henry Inman-crop jpg PD-old-100 Henry Inman Daguerreotypes by Mathew Brady National Academy of Design | ||||
