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1801 |
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Born in Utica, New York |
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1827 |
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Established his own studio in New York City |
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1826 - 1828 |
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Worked in partnership with his pupil Thomas Cummings |
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1831 |
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Moved briefly from New York to Philadelphia where he was a partner in a lithography firm. |
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1840 |
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Inman had failing health |
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1846 |
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Died shortly after a visit to England, and shortly after an exhibition was held in New York to raise money for his impoverished family. |
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Became the first vice-president of the National Academy of Design |
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Was a noted chronicler of the history of the West without having been there |
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Most of his short life was spent in New York City |
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Thomas L. McKenney, a newspaper editor who was compiling a history of North American Indian tribes, hired Inman to make careful copies of Indian portraits, most of them originally by Charles Bird King. |
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