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Last Name Miller

Given Name Alfred Jacob

alt. Names A. J. M. ;

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Year born 1810 in Baltimore

Year died 1874

Place of death Baltimore

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Education studied art withThomas Sully in his hometown of Baltimore; continued his artistic training in Paris at École des Beaux-Arts; English Life School, Rom

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Captain William Drummond Stewart as expedition artist in the Rocky Mountains (1837) ; Texas Ranger Charles Wilkins Webber (1819-1856): Wild Scenes and Song-Birds (New York 1855) ;

Patronage

Collaborators lithographers and printers ->Rosenthal brothers, Philadelphia ;

Techniques anthropological, ethnological & zoological chromolithography

Sample(s) www.dsloan.com/Auctions/A22/item-miller-alfred-jacob-photographs.html ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jacob_Miller

Archival sources Catalogue descriptif de la collection des aquarelles exécutées par Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) et deposées aux Archives publiques du Canada;

Published sources Thrapp: Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography II: 986-987 ; Goetzmann: The West of the Imagination (New York & London 1986: 58-68) ; The West of A. J. M.(1837) from the notes and water colors in the Walters Art Gallery, with an account of the artist (1974) ;

other after his training in France & Italy, A. J. M. returned to Baltimore in the 1830s but soon departed for New Orleans and set up a studio; see also http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/alfred-jacob-miller-manuscript-and-sketches-10021 .

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