Henry inman biography
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Henry Inman's father was an English-born brewer who settled near Utica, New York, and it was there that the future artist was born in , raised, and educated. Aside from primary schooling, Inman also received some artistic instruction in his native town from an itinerant portrait painter.
After the family moved to New York City in , he continued his study of drawing.
Henry inman biography
His important training, however, began two years later when he was accepted for a seven-year apprenticeship by John Wesley Jarvis, at that time the premier portrait painter in New York. During the course of his term with Jarvis, Inman accompanied him on several painting trips, notably to New Orleans, and assumed responsibility for the backgrounds and drapery of his master's works.
He soon learned to paint miniatures, and his first large oil portrait was executed in Consequently, by the time his apprenticeship ended in , he was more than ready to launch his own career.
Inman settled in New York, marrying Jane O'Brien in