| Title |
Inman, Henry |
| Date |
October 28, 1801-January 17, 1846 |
| Description |
Henry Inman, born in Utica, New York on October 28, 1801, was a renown portrait painter who practiced lithography as a partner
in the premier Philadelphia firm Childs & Inman with engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs 1830-1833. In his formative
years, Inman served as an apprentice to painter John Wesley Jarvis in New York City. In the early 1820s, he traveled with
him to New Orleans and in 1822 they established a short-lived business in Boston. Inman eventually opened his own studio in
New York City in 1824, as well as was a founding member of the National Academy of Design and a director of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts (1834).
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At the end of 1830, Inman entered the partnership Childs & Inman, initially as a business agent and artist from New York before
he relocated to Philadelphia in 1832. Inman was to add artistic cachet to the firm established by Childs (formerly Pendleton,
Kearny and Childs) as well as garner painting commissions for himself. He left the firm in 1833 to focus on his painting and
returned to New York by 1835.
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During his time in the lithographic trade in Philadelphia, Inman resided with his family on an estate in Mount Holly, New
Jersey. He returned to New York City after only a few years in Philadelphia in the fall of 1834. A lifetime sufferer of asthma,
he fell ill in the 1840s and passed away on January 17, 1846, a few months after returning from working in Europe.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress. |
| References |
See Childs & Inman; Clay, E.W.; Doughty, J. & T.; Duval, P. S.; Lehman, George; Pendleton, Kearny & Childs |
| Has format |
LOC-Inman.jpg |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Carey, "American Lithography" (PhD. diss., 1954), 302 |
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Groce & Wallace, 340 |
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Henry Inman Letters, 1828-1845, American Antiquarian Society |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Peters, 235-236 |
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Philadelphia Business & City Directories, 1831-1833 |
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Spectator, April 29, 1831 and October 20, 1834 |
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Tuckerman, Book of the Artists: American Artist Life (New York: G.P. Putnam & Son, 1867), 233-246 |
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Wainwright, 17-26 |
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WWWAA, 1686 |
| Image file |
LOC-Inman |
