Eliphalet Nott, oil on canvas, 96 by 60 inches (240 cm x 150 cm); this is a cropped version of the larger painting, which now hangs in the Nott Memorial on Union's campus.
Date 1839(1839)
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Painting ID:: 82055
Henry Inman American Painter, 1801-1846,was an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter.He was born at Utica, N. Y., October 20, 1801, and was for seven years an apprentice pupil of John Wesley Jarvis in New York City. He was the first vice president of the National Academy of Design. He excelled in portrait painting, but was less careful in genre pictures. Among his landscapes are "Rydal Falls, England," "October Afternoon," and "Ruins of Brambletye." His genre subjects include "Rip Van Winkle," "The News Boy," and "Boyhood of Washington;" his portraits, those of Henry Rutgers and Fitz-Greene Halleck in the New York Historical Society, of Bishop White, Chief Justices Marshall and Nelson, Jacob Barker, William Wirt, Audubon, DeWitt Clinton, Martin Van Buren, and William H. Seward. Eliphalet Nott Eliphalet Nott, oil on canvas, 96 by 60 inches (240 cm x 150 cm); this is a cropped version of the larger painting, which now hangs in the Nott Memorial on Union's campus.
Date 1839(1839)
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