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HENRY INMAN (1801-1846)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 575 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY INMAN (1801-1846)  ,
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American artist, was born in
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Utica, New York, on the loth of
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October 18o1 . Apprenticed to the painter John W . Jarvis at the age of fourteen, he
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left him after seven years and set up for himself,
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painting portraits, genre and landscape . He was one of the organizers of the
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National Academy of Design in New York and its first
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vice-president (from 1826 until 1832) . As a portrait painter he was highly successful both in New York and
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Philadelphia, and going to England in 1844, he had for sitters the Lord Chancellor (Cottenham), the poet Wordsworth, Doctor Chalmers, Lord Macaulay and others . His American sitters included President
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Van Buren and Chief Justice Marshall . He died in New York City on the 17th of
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January 1846 .

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