Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc.

Timeline

1801

Born in Utica, New York

1826 - 1828

Worked in partnership with his pupil Thomas Cummings

1827

Established his own studio in New York City

1831

Moved briefly from New York to Philadelphia where he was a partner in a lithography firm.

1840

Inman had failing health

1846

Died shortly after a visit to England, and shortly after an exhibition was held in New York to raise money for his impoverished family.

Became the first vice-president of the National Academy of Design

Was a noted chronicler of the history of the West without having been there

Most of his short life was spent in New York City

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.