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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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