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Henry Herman Cross

Henry Herman Cross (1837 - 1918) was active/lived in Illinois, California.  Henry Cross is known for Portrait-Indian, genre, horse-races.

Born in Flemingville, New York, Henry Cross became a reputed painter of Indian portraits and racehorses and was described by Buffalo Bill Cody as the "greatest painter of Indian portraiture of all times." (Samuels 116)  He was a perpetually adventurous person who, as a teen-ager ran away several times to join a circus and then at age sixteen, traveled to Paris where he studied with animal painter Rosa Bonheur between 1853 and 1855.

Returning to the United States, he earned a living painting animals on the sides of wagons and traveled West, again working with a circus.  For the first time, he saw real-life Indians, but they were tame because they were circus spectators.  His experiences during this time stimulated his interest in Western themes.

In 1862, after having had a portrait studio in Chicago for two years, he moved to Minnesota during the Sioux uprising with the intent of painting the Indians President Abraham Lincoln had sentenced to   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3590 characters.]  Artist bio

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