biografía de John O'Brien INMAN (1828-1896)

Lugar de nacimiento: NYC

Lugar de defunción: Fordham, NY

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Portrait and genre painter

Estudios: with his father, Henry Inman (1801-46).

Exposiciones: NAD, 1853-86; Brooklyn AA, 1861-64; Boston Athenaeum; Artists Fund Soc.

Asociaciones: ANA, 1865.

Obra: NMAA; NYHS; Mus. City of NY

Comentarios: Worked in NYC in 1850s as a portrait and miniature painter and later worked in the South and West. In the 1860s, he added still life and landscape painting. In 1866 he went to Europe and spent the next twelve years mostly in Paris and Rome, returning to NYC in 1878. He was known for the high technical accomplishments and details of his paintings.

Fuentes: G&W; CAB; information courtesy NAD; Antiques (Sept. 1950), 197; Cowdrey, NAD; Swan, BA; For Beauty and for Truth, 70 (w/repro.)