Swagger. It was missing from American miniatures until Henry Inman. In 1814 at the tender age of 13, Inman began an eventful 7 year apprenticeship with the eccentic and ridiculously talented John Wesley Jarvis. Inman learned quickly; he and Jarvis sometimes finished 6 portraits a week, with Jarvis painting the faces and Inman executing the rest. But Jarvis also taught Inman what not to do. After 7 years of dragging his inebriated master out of gutters, the sober Inman took a wife, then set up his own studio in New York City - the first American artist to treat his talent as a business. A founder member of the National Academy of Design, Inman reigned as New York’s leading portraitist for almost 20 years. President Martin Van Buren, John James Audubon and Fanny Kemble all sat to him. In 1844, two years before his untimely death, with commissions to paint William Wordsworth and Thomas Macaulay, Inman left for England, producing some of his strongest work while there. ******************************** By Henry Inman, circa 1830. ******************************** #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #AmericanPortrait #elleshushan #HistoricArt #AmericanPortraitMiniature #HenryInman #Swagger #19thcentury https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw8PjIsnkJC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hq4hn4pwoyb1