Alfred Jacob Miller
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| Alfred Jacob Miller |
| 1810-1874 |
| American Artist |
| Miller was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied portraiture with Thomas Sully from 1831-32. In 1833, he went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and later at the English Life School in Rome. Miller became the first artist of his generation to explore the Rocky Mountains when he accompanied Scottish soldier and sportsman Sir William Drummond Stewart on an expedition into the American West in 1837. The expedition journeyed by wagon along what was to become the Oregon Trail. Miller sketched the Native American along the way and also recorded the rendezvous of the mountain men in what is now southwestern Wyoming. Miller returned to Saint Louis with 166 sketches which were later developed into oil paintings while in New Orleans and Baltimore. Most of these paintings remained in private hands, and it was not until after his death that his reputation as a frontier artist was brought to the attention of a wider public. |
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Paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller
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