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INMAN, HENRY (1801-1846)

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

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