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Henry Inman

Henry Inman (1801 - 1846) was active/lived in New York.  Henry Inman is known for Portrait, landscape and genre-figure painting.

Born in Utica, New York, Henry Inman became the leading portrait painter of his time and was a noted chronicler of the history of the West without having been there. He also painted idyllic landscapes, and some popular genre paintings that were engraved in books. He became the first vice-president of the National Academy of Design, and most of his short life was spent in New York City.

For seven years, he was apprenticed to portraitist John Wesley Jarvis, and they worked in tandem with Jarvis painting the likeness and Inman finishing the canvas. On a visit to New Orleans in 1820 and 1821, they made $6000.00 from completing six portraits.

In the mid to late 1820s, Inman married Jane Riker O'Brien and established his own studio in New York City, and from 1826 to 1828, worked in partnership with his pupil Thomas Cummings. He received commissions to paint prominent New Yorkers including the De Kays and Drake families and in 1830 completed a full-length portrait of Governo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3152 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  152
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Henry Inman
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Childhood in 19th Century America February 2006 Perry, Claire Yes
Southwest Art New Mexico-Best of the West April 2004 Schneider, Wolf Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene November 2001 Editors No
American Art Review American Portrait/Mourning Miniatur June 2001 Frank, Robin Jaffee Yes
The Magazine Antiques Group Portraits in Picturing Americ April 2001 Connor, Holly Pyne Yes
American Art Review The High Museum of Art August 1994 Larson, Judy Yes
152 Book References for Henry Inman
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Boehme, Sarah E Whitney Gallery of American Art 78 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)
512 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1995 Barnhill, Georgia B Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper 99 Yes
1995 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-75 329 Yes
1994 Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815 628 No
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1992 Danly, Susan Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy 104 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)
545 No
1992 Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)
56 Yes
1991 Cunningham, Elizabeth West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection 131 Yes
1991 Detroit Institute of the Arts American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1) 340 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Johns, Elizabeth American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life 250 Yes
1991 Pennsylvania Academy Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
100 Yes
1991 Wilmerding, John American Views Essays on American Art 357 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections 198 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
472 No
1988 Gerald Peters Gallery The West Explored The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
93 Yes
1987 Gerdts, William H The Art of Henry Inman 0 No
1987 Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors) Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 464 No
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1984 Reaves, Wendy Wick American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference 285 No
1984 Troyen, Carol/Pamela Tabbaa The Great Boston Collectors Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts 151 Yes
1983 Johnston, Sona K American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art 187 Yes
1983 National Academy of Design Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)
175 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods 100 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1982 Terra Museum of American Art Solitude Inner Visions in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
41 Yes
1981 Nassau County Museum William Cullen Bryant (and the) Hudson River School of Landscape Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
61 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920
(Exhibition catalog)
228 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 323 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)
325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Eisler, Colin American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
38 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Teitz, Richard Stuart American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum 118 No
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Miles, Ellen G (editor) Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century 176 Yes
1977 Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College
(Exhibition catalog)
252 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)
322 Yes
1976 Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923) 119 No
1976 Ross, Barbara T American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University 132 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
272 No
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Hills, Patricia The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)
245 Yes
1973 Editor, Library Company of Philadelpia Made in America, Printmaking 1760-1860 An Exhibition of Original Prints from Collections of The Library Company, Philadelphia
(Exhibition catalog)
110 No
1973 Hennessey, William J The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to Sargent 63 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Feigenbaum, Rita American Portraits 1800-1850 Early Portraits in the Collection of Union College 155 No
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)
188 No
1972 Horan, James D The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians 373 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Bolton, Theodore Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons 111 No
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1970 Lester, C Edwards The Artists of America A Series of Biographical Sketches 257 No
1970 Lynes, Russell The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America 514 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor) Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings 166 No
1969 Garrett, Wendell (others) The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century 412 No
1969 London, Hannah Portraits of Jews By Gilbert Stuart & Other Early American Artists 197 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1969 Stewart, Robert G A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans 93 No
1968 Dickson, Harold E Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap
(Exhibition catalog)
234 No
1968 Petersen, Martin E Master Works from the Collection Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego
(Exhibition catalog)
70 Yes
1968 Public Education Association The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1968 Purdy, Virginia/Daniel J Reed Presidential Portraits 75 No
1968 Wunderlich, Rudolf (Introduction), American Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, Part Two The Nineteenth Century:1825-1890, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
76 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Oliver, Andrew The Adams Papers Portraits of John and Abigail Adams 284 No
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1966 Los Angeles County Museum American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 143 Yes
1965 Burroughs, Alan Limners and Likenesses 246 No
1965 Gardner, Albert and S Field American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum 284 No
1965 Jensen, Amy (others) Paintings in the White House A Close-Up TV Program (tie-in) 46 Yes
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1964 Gerdts, William H Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey 276 No
1964 Kuh, Katherine Art in New York State New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
126 Yes
1963 Biddle, James American Art From American Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
114 No
1963 Lafayette College The Kirby Collection Historical Paintings 54 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
63 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1953 Brooklyn, Museum American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection 48 No
1953 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union 0 No
1952 Corcoran Gallery of Art Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1951 Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner History of Modern Painting 391 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1949 Swenson, Eleanor De Gustibus A Century of Taste and Criticism
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
1948 Born, Wolfgang American Landscape Painting An Interpretation 228 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1945 Baltimore Museum of Art Two Hundred and Fifty Years (of) Painting in Maryland
(Exhibition catalog)
78 No
1945 Sweet, Frederick A The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)
123 No
1944 Curator, Knoedler Galleries, New York American Portraits by American Painters, 1730-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
61 No
1944 Knoedler Galleries American Portraits by American Painters 1730-1944 24 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
1943 Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller Romantic Painting in America
(Exhibition catalog)
144 No
1941 New York Historical Society American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures 367 No
1940 Addison, Agnes (editor) Portraits In the University of Pennsylvania 67 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
230 No
1937 Caffin, Charles H The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America 396 No
1936 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Main Currents in the Development of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
80 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1922 Kelby, William Notes on American Artists 1754-1820 Portraits & Sculpture in New York Hist Society 80 Yes
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
1918 Ehrich Galleries One Hundred Early American Paintings 176 No
1898 Hoyt, Deristhe L. The World's Painters and Their Pictures 272 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
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