Inman

ing of Aug. 27, 1776, he took part in the capture
of a patrol of American officers to whom Putnam
and Sullivan were looking for intelligence of the
British advance through Jamaica Pass (S. M.
Gozzaldi in Cambridge Historical Society Pub-
lications, XIX, 1927, 46-79). It has been assert-
ed that this incident, small though it was, turned
the scales of battle against the Americans (John-
ston, post, pp. 176-78). Inman served on this de-
tail as one of the subordinates of Capt. W. G.
Evelyn, to whom, it seems, most of the credit
ought to go (Scull, post, pp. 129, 199; Pennsyl-
vania Magazine of History and Biography, VII,
238-39), but Inman's share in the capture did
not go unrecognized, for soon Sir William Howe
made him ensign in the I7th Regiment, his com-
mission bearing the date of the encounter on Long
Island. He was slightly wounded at Princeton,
served at Brandywine and Germantown accept-
ably, and fought at Monmouth, after which bat-
tle Sir Henry Clinton appointed him lieutenant
in the 26th Regiment. At Philadelphia on Apr.
23, 1778, he was married to Mary Badger and
when the officers of his regiment were ordered
home, he sailed with his wife for England where
he landed in February 1780.

As an exile in England, Inman fretted away
the next eight years. A convivial man, fond of
the officers' mess and outdoor sports, he was the
father of an increasing family which he had to do
his best to maintain on a recruiting officer's small
pay. Life at Bristol among the other American
emigres was dull, and with all his heart he longed
to be able to purchase a captain's commission and
see active service again. His father had bred
him up to be a rich man's son, but now grumbled
at his extravagances, and did but little for him.
Inman often had to keep an eye out for the ap-
roaching bailiff. In May 1788, Ralph Inman
died, and his fortune devolved upon George as
one of the co-heirs. The news found him at St
George, Grenada, whither he had gone with his
wife and children to take an unimportant post
in the army in April 1788. It was now too late
to mend matters, for Inman's young son died of a
fever, and he himself expired of the same dis-
ease, early in February 1789. His widow and
her four small daughters returned to Cambridge,
and claimed their share of the estate.

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The Evelyns in America, 1608-1805 (1881), ed.by G. D.
Scull; Letters of Tames Murray, Loyalist (1901), ed. by
N. M. Tiffany and S. I. Lesley; E. A. Jones, The Loyal-

Inman
ists of Mass. (1930) ; L. R. Paige, Hist, of Cambridge,
Mass. , . . Suppl. to Index by M. I. Gozzaldi (1930).]
F.M—d.
INMAN, HENRY (Oct. 28, i8oi-Jan. 17,
1846), portrait and genre painter, was born at
Utica, N. Y., the son of William and Sarah In-
man. His father, born in England, 1762, came
to America in 1792, settled at Whitestown, near
Utica, where he had a brewery and speculated in
real estate. In 1812 he moved to New York
City and became a merchant, but, meeting with
reverses, went to Leyden, Lewis County, N. Y.,
where he died in 1843. His wife, born in 1773,
died in 1829, bore four sons, three of whom made
their mark in the world—William, the eldest, a
naval officer who rose to the rank of commo-
dore; Henry, the artist; and John \_q.v.~\, who
was editor of the New York Mirror, the Com-
mercial 'Advertiser, and the Columbian Lady's
and Gentleman's Magazine. Henry as a boy in
Utica had received some elementary instruction
in drawing, and soon after the family moved to
New York City he was preparing to enter the
United States Military Academy at West Point,
to which he had received an appointment, but
at that time he chanced to meet John Wesley
Jarvis, the portrait painter, who, being struck
by the boy's promise as a draftsman, offered to
take him on as a pupil. The result was that the
West Point project was abandoned and Henry
was bound as an apprentice to Jarvis for a term
of seven years.
The experience thus gained gave the young
man an unusually good training in art. He was
soon allowed to do some of the work on his
master's canvases. With Jarvis he traveled far
and wide, wherever there were portraits to be
painted—to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and
New Orleans. The apprentice, beginning by put-
ting in the drapery and background, shortly be-
gan to paint portraits on his own account. At the
age of twenty-two, his probationary period being
over, Inman took a studio in Vesey Street, New
York, and there began his career as a painter of
portraits, miniatures, and genre pieces. The early
years were prosperous and happy; but later there
were sharp fluctuations of favor and neglect.
Many eminent sitters came to him. Few Ameri-
can portraitists since Stuart have to their credit
a more imposing list of distinguished patrons.
At the top tide of Inman's vogue he was earning
about $9,000 a year, at that period a handsome
income. He commanded good prices and would
make no reductions. Once when he had painted
a group for a rich client, who paid the fee of
$500 with some reluctance, he requested his cus-