Fur Traders and Rendezvous: The Alfred Jacob Miller Online Catalogue
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  • 1810

    Alfred Jacob Miller born in Baltimore, January 2

  • 1832

    Travels to Europe to study art in France, England, Italy and Switzerland

  • 1834

    Returns to Baltimore and establishes a studio

  • 1836

    Moves to New Orleans and sets up a studio

  • 1837

    Meets Captain William Drummond Stewart that spring / Travels west with Stewart to the American Fur Company Rendezvous near the Wind River Mountains / Returns in the fall to New Orleans and begins organizing western sketches

  • 1838

    Re-establishes his studio in Baltimore, and begins a set of large paintings for Stewart’s Murthly Castle in Scotland

  • 1840

    Moves to Scotland, and takes up residence at Murthly Castle, establishing a studio there to finish his large commission

  • 1842

    Moves to London for several months, then returns to Baltimore

  • 1844

    Begins exhibiting at the National Academy of Design in New York

  • 1846

    Begins a ledger book which provides the first recorded US sale of a western painting, Indian Bride

  • 1851

    Exhibits three western works at American Art-Union in New York

  • 1859

    Receives large commission from William Walters of Baltimore to create 200 watercolors from his earlier western travels

  • 1867

    Receives commission from Alexander Brown of Liverpool to create 40 watercolors from his western portfolio

  • 1874

    Dies in Baltimore, June 26

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