Born in New York City, John Inman became an accomplished and famous artist in his time, earning his reputation for skilled portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. But his fame did not last much... Read full biography
Born in New York City, John Inman became an accomplished and famous artist in his time, earning his reputation for skilled portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. But his fame did not last much beyond his death, and only a few historians know much about him. He was the son of artist Henry Inman... Read full biography
Born in New York City, John Inman became an accomplished and famous artist in his time, earning his reputation for skilled portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. But his fame did not last much beyond his death, and only a few historians know much about him. He was the son of artist Henry Inman (1801-1846), and was one of the founders and first vice-president of the National Academy of Design in New York City. He received his art training from his father, who died when the family was young and... Read full biography
Born in New York City, John Inman became an accomplished and famous artist in his time, earning his reputation for skilled portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. But his fame did not last much beyond his death, and only a few historians know much about him. He was the son of artist Henry Inman (1801-1846), and was one of the founders and first vice-president of the National Academy of Design in New York City. He received his art training from his father, who died when the family was young and left them destitute. His earliest work, which was of a conch shell, is dated 1846, shortly after his father's death. In 1852, he married and then later divorced C. Adeline Hedley. He began his career painting portraits and miniatures in his New York... Read full biography
Born in New York City, John Inman became an accomplished and famous artist in his time, earning his reputation for skilled portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. But his fame did not last much beyond his death, and only a few historians know much about him. He was the son of artist Henry Inman (1801-1846), and was one of the founders and first vice-president of the National Academy of Design in New York City. He received his art training from his father, who died when the family was young and left them destitute. His earliest work, which was of a conch shell, is dated 1846, shortly after his father's death. In 1852, he married and then later divorced C. Adeline Hedley. He began his career painting portraits and miniatures in his New York City studio and spent a summer in Savannah, Georgia, where he did a portrait of the President of the University.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (30)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Baekland, Frederick
160 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Sport in Art From American Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown
128 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
American Cornucopia 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Brindle, John V/Sally Secrest
48 pages (color)
American Drawings In the Art Museum, Princeton University
1976
Ross, Barbara T
132 pages
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago