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he acquired renown as a painter of miniature and
life-size portraits. His twu early portraits that
brouglJt liini fame were those of Chief-Justice
Marshall and Bishop White. In 1»25 he joined
the Association of Artists, and on the establisli-
ment of the National
Academy of Design
he was elected its
vice-president, which
office he held until
he I'emoved to Mount
Holly, N.J., near
Philadelphia, Pa., in
1832. He returned to
New York city in
1834. where lie was
so pressed with work
that he was unable
to fill his orders for
portraits. In 1844 he
accepted a commis-
sion from his friends
in that city to visit England and paint por-
traits of Macaulay, Wordsworth, Chalmers and
Lord Cottenham. This consumed one year
and gained him a host of friends in England, who
offered him flattering inducements to make that
country his home. He returned, however, to
New York in 1845. He introduced the art of
lithography in the United States in 1828, and was
one of the early crayon portrait artists. He had
two sons, John O'Brien, who became a well-
known painter, and Henry (q.v.). His portrait
of William Wordsworth is the property of the
University of Pennsylvania; his William Penn
hangs in Independence Hall, Pliiladelphia, and
his William H. Seward, De Witt Clinton and
^lartin Van Buren are in the New York city hall.
He also painted from life William Wirt, Nicholas
Biddle, Horace Binney, Fitz Green Halleck, John
James Audubon, Bishops Moore, White and De
Lancey, and many prominent private citizens of
New York. Besides his portraits he painted his-
torical and genre subjects, including: The Boy-
hood of Washington, Rip Van Winkle Awaking
from hin Dream, Sterne's Maria, Mumble the Peg,
Trout Fishing; and landscapes: Dismal Swamp,
Rydal Falls, Englaml, and An October Aftei^
noon. At the time of his death he was commis-
sioned by congress to paint one of the panels of
the rotunda of the capitol at Washington, and
had outlined Daniel Boone in the Woods of Ken-
tucky. He died in New York city. Jan. 17, 184G.
INMAN, Henry, antlior, was born in New
York city. July 30, ls:>,7; son of Henry Inman.
N.A. His father was president f>f the National
Acailemy of Design, and liis brother. John O'Brien
Inman. wa.s also a well-known painter. He was
educated in the public .schools of Brooklyn and
went west, where he was an Indian fighter in the
company of Col. W, F. Cody ("ButTalo Bill")
and in tiie service of the U.S. army in the Indian
campaigns of 1857-Cl. He returned home in IbGl
and was appointed aide-de-camp on tiie staff of
Gen. George Sykes. He was severely wounded
before Richmond; was brevetted for gallantry in
action and promoted to the rank of major. Dur-
ing the great Indian winter campaign of 1868-69
he won promotion to tiie rank of lieutenant-col-
onel. He resigned from the army in 1869 and
devoted himself to literature. He is the author
of: The Old Santa Fe Trail: A Story of a Great
Highway (1897); The Ranch on the Oxhide (189S);
Tlie Great Salt Lake Trail (with W. F. Cody
1898); Tales of the Trail (1898); A Pioneer frori
Kentucky: An Idyl of the Baton Rouge (1898);
Tlie Delahoyles: Boy Life on the Old Santa Fe
Trail (1899): and compiled Buffalo Jones' Forty
Years of Adventure (1899). He died in Topeka,
Kan.. Nov. 13. 1899.
INMAN, William, naval officer, was born in Utica, N.Y., in 1797. He entered the navy as midshipman, Jan. 1, 1812, and served on the lakes during the war of 1812. He was promoted lieutenant, April 1, 1818; commander. May 24, 1838, and ca^itain, June 2, 18.j0. He assisted in the cai)ture of a pirate sliip in 1823; served on the Michigan on the lakes. 1844-46; and in 1851 commanded the frigate Susquehanna, of the East India squadron. He commanded the .squadron on the African coast that recaptured and landed at Liberia over 3500 slaves, 1859-61. He was pro- moted commodore and retired on April 4. 1867, and was senior officer of his rank in 1874. He died in Philadelpliia, Pa., Oct 23, 1874.
INNES, Hary, jurist, was born in Caroline count}-, Va., in 1752; eldest son of the Rev. Robert and Catharine (Richards) Innes. His father emigrated from Scotland to Virginia be- fore the middle of the eighteenth century, and his mother was a native of Virginia. He studied law under Hugh Rose, Esq., and practised his profession in Virginia until the beginning of the Revolution. In 1776 he was employed by the committee of public safety in Virginia to super- intend the working of lead mines to supply the patriot army with ammunition; and in 1779 he was appointed a commissioner to determine claims to unpatented lands in the Abingdon dis- trict. He was married in early manhood to Elizabeth, daughter of Col. James and Sarali (Tate) Calloway, of Bedford county, Va. He was justice of the supreme court of Virginia in 1783 and attorney-general for the district of Kentucky 1785-87. He was U.S. district judge for Ken- tucky, 1787-1816. and declined the office of chief justice on the admission of the state in 1792. He favored a separate agreement with Spain as to the
