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[Henry Inman, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Henry Inman, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left], [between 1844 and 1846] — historic photograph
[Henry Inman, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left], [between 1844 and 1846]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Henry Inman, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left]

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Henry Inman, a New York painter known mainly for his portraits, sits here turned slightly to the left, his head and shoulders filling the half-plate frame. The likeness is attributed to Mathew Brady's studio and dated between 1844 and 1846, just before Inman died in 1846. The identification rests on an engraving of him in C. Edwards Lester's 1846 *The Artists of America*. Gold toning, applied to this daguerreotype, helped strengthen the delicate silver surface and deepen its tones, a detail worth noticing for anyone studying how these early portraits were made.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1846]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesIdentification from engraving in C. Edwards Lester, The artists of America: a series of biographical sketches..., 1846, p. 33. Scratched on back of plate: 51; 440. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 329. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsInman, Henry,--1801-1846.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186578

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