INMAN, HENRY (1801-1846), American painter, was born in Utica (N.Y.), on Oct. 2o, 1801. Apprenticed to the painter John W. Jarvis at the age of 14, he left him after seven years and set up for himself, painting protraits, genre and landscape. He was one of the organizers of the National Academy of De sign in New York and its first vice-president (from 18 2 6-3 2) . As a portrait painter he was highly successful both in New York and Philadelphia, and going to England in 1844, he had for sitters the lord chancellor (Cottenham), the poet Wordsworth, Doctor Chalmers, Lord Macaulay and others. His American sitters in cluded President Van Buren and Chief Justice Marshall. He died in New York city on Jan. 17, 1846.