Historical 6x3.5 City of New York check payable to H. Inman, dated September 7, 1829, for the sum of Two Hundred dollars for the Art of the Portrait of the former governor, Martin Van Buren. Signed on the verso "H. Inman" in old ink. Excellent condition. (1801-1846) Henry Inman was an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter.He was the first vice president of the National Academy of Design. He excelled in portrait painting, but was less careful in genre pictures. Among his landscapes are Rydal Falls, England, October Afternoon, and Ruins of Brambletye. His genre subjects include Rip Van Winkle, The News Boy, and Boyhood of Washington. His portraits include those of Henry Rutgers and Fitz-Greene Halleck in the New York Historical Society. He also painted portraits of Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Bishop White, Chief Justices Marshall and Nelson, Jacob Barker, William Wirt, Audubon, DeWitt Clinton, Richard Varick, Martin Van Buren, Francis L. Hawks, and William H. Seward.Thomas L. McKenney assigned Inman, who was an accomplished lithographer, the task of copying more than a hundred oil paintings of Native American leaders by Charles Bird King to translate into a printed book, the History of the Indian Tribes of North America. The oil paintings are now in the collections of the White House, the Joslyn Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, among others. In the Metropolitan Museum, New York, are his Martin Van Buren, The Young Fisherman, and William C. Maccready as William Tell.During a year spent in England in 1844–1845, he painted Wordsworth, Macaulay, John Chambers, Sir William Stewart, Baronet of Blair, and other celebrities.At the time of his death, he was engaged on a series of historical pictures for the Capitol at Washington. He was also president of the National Academy of Design.Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.