INMAN, Henry, American artist: b.. Utica, N. Y., 20 Oct. 1801; d. New York, 17 Jan. 1846. From early boyhood he manifested a taste for art, and in 1814 J. W. Jarvis, the portrait painter offered to receive him as a pupil, and he was bound an apprentice for seven years. Upon the conclusion of his apprenticeship he devoted himself to portrait painting. In 1832 he married 'and settled at Mount Holly, near Philadelphia. He was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design and one of its vice-presidents. Among his most character istic portraits are those of Chief Justice Mar shall, Lafayette, William Penn, Martin Van Buren, Fitz-Greene Halleck, J. J. Audubon, Horace Binney, Nicholas Biddle and Bishop White. Many of his portraits are to be found in public buildings in New York, Albany and Philadelphia. He painted also landscape, genre and history. The best known of these are 'The Boyhood of Washington' ; 'The News Boy' ; 'Rip Van Winkle' ; 'Mumble the Peg' ; 'Dis mal Swamp' ; (Dundrennan Abbey' ; 'October Afternoon.' In 1844 he visited England, where he was the guest of Wordsworth, whose por trait he painted, and at whose suggestion he executed his 'Rydal Water,' near the poet's residence. During his residence in England he also painted portraits of Dr. Chalmers, Lord Chancellor Cottenham and Macaulay. Inman was not only one of the most prominent Amer ican painters of his time, but a man of great personal magnetism, a keen lover and student of nature, a clever conversationalist and after dinner speaker, as well as a contributor to and illustrator of the magazines• of his days. Con
stilt Van Norden and King, 'Catalogue of Works by the late Henry Inman, etc.' (New York 1846).
INN, a river of Europe which issues from a lake at the foot of the Piz Longhino in the Rhaetian Alps, at an altitude of about 8,000 feet, forms a series of small lakes, the best known of which is that of Saint Moritz, then flows northeast through the deep and narrow valley of the Engadine, in the Swiss canton of the Grisons, enters the 'Tyrol at Martinsbruck, passes Innsbruck, Hall, and Kufstein, and shortly after enters Bavaria. At Miihldorf it turns east till it receives the Salza, where it be gins to form the boundary between Austria and Bavaria, and joins the right bank of the Dan ube at Passau, after a course of over 300 miles. On account of its rapid current it is of little importance as a navigable river, but it is used extensively to bring timber rafts down to the Danube froin the well-wooded mountain regions of its upper section. Consult Greiuz, R., Won Innsbruck nach Kufstein Eine Wan derung durch das (Stuttgart 1902).