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As the eldest of nine children, Alfred Jacob Miller did not always have it easy. As the son of a trader and tavern owner, he had to help in the family business at an early age. His parents George and Harriet Miller enabled Alfred, born in 1810, to attend a private school in Baltimore, where his artistic talent was recognized, but simply no teacher was gifted enough to encourage his talent. He had his first painting lessons with Thomas Sully, a small portrait artist from Great Britain.
When it became clear that he was destined, as they say, for greater things, he moved to Paris to study art with the help of financial support from his family, friends and sponsors. Arriving in the city of love, he used every opportunity to get in touch with art. He taught an art class and copied paintings in the Louvre. After he had dealt extensively with the Parisian art scene, he went on a trip to Italy in 1833, like Goethe before him. He was fascinated by the beauty of the cities and Italian art, so he settled in Rome and continued his studies there. Alfred got to know the Danish sculptor and artist Bertel Thorwaldsen, who was 13 years older. He was a lasting inspiration to Alfred. According to Thorwaldsen, one must first experience something before one can express it artistically. This is how he himself had travelled half his life. In 1834 Alfred finally returned home, where, like his first teacher, he earned his living with portrait paintings. Due to a lack of customers he moved to New Orleans, where his new portrait studio was flooded with orders.
In his small studio, he was hired by the notorious adventurer Sir William Drummond Steward to accompany his expedition and capture the discoveries with a brush. With Thorwaldsen's voice in his ears, he set off for the west in May 1837, together with the expedition group. Alfred saw in the expedition a huge opportunity for his art. He was the first artist to reach the middle of the Rocky Mountains. On the journey, he tried to make up for everything on his return. He made hundreds of watercolours and ink drawings. Most of these watercolours show Indians and the miles of steppe. With the onset of winter the expedition returned home. Miller then spent his time turning the most beautiful of his quick watercolours and drawings into oil paintings. These were much sought after in New Orleans and beyond. They show a foreign, sometimes wild world, but also the beauty of the moment. It is these paintings that were to make Miller famous beyond his death.
As the eldest of nine children, Alfred Jacob Miller did not always have it easy. As the son of a trader and tavern owner, he had to help in the family business at an early age. His parents George and Harriet Miller enabled Alfred, born in 1810, to attend a private school in Baltimore, where his artistic talent was recognized, but simply no teacher was gifted enough to encourage his talent. He had his first painting lessons with Thomas Sully, a small portrait artist from Great Britain.
When it became clear that he was destined, as they say, for greater things, he moved to Paris to study art with the help of financial support from his family, friends and sponsors. Arriving in the city of love, he used every opportunity to get in touch with art. He taught an art class and copied paintings in the Louvre. After he had dealt extensively with the Parisian art scene, he went on a trip to Italy in 1833, like Goethe before him. He was fascinated by the beauty of the cities and Italian art, so he settled in Rome and continued his studies there. Alfred got to know the Danish sculptor and artist Bertel Thorwaldsen, who was 13 years older. He was a lasting inspiration to Alfred. According to Thorwaldsen, one must first experience something before one can express it artistically. This is how he himself had travelled half his life. In 1834 Alfred finally returned home, where, like his first teacher, he earned his living with portrait paintings. Due to a lack of customers he moved to New Orleans, where his new portrait studio was flooded with orders.
In his small studio, he was hired by the notorious adventurer Sir William Drummond Steward to accompany his expedition and capture the discoveries with a brush. With Thorwaldsen's voice in his ears, he set off for the west in May 1837, together with the expedition group. Alfred saw in the expedition a huge opportunity for his art. He was the first artist to reach the middle of the Rocky Mountains. On the journey, he tried to make up for everything on his return. He made hundreds of watercolours and ink drawings. Most of these watercolours show Indians and the miles of steppe. With the onset of winter the expedition returned home. Miller then spent his time turning the most beautiful of his quick watercolours and drawings into oil paintings. These were much sought after in New Orleans and beyond. They show a foreign, sometimes wild world, but also the beauty of the moment. It is these paintings that were to make Miller famous beyond his death.
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.jpg "Crow Encampment by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315679).jpg "Caravan on Platte River, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Shoshone woman catching a horse, 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Fort Laramie, 1858-60 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Snake Indians by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Breaking Up Camp at Sunrise by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Indian Council, 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Hunting Buffalo by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Chinook Indian, Columbia River by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Snake Indians Testing Bows, 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Crow Indian on the Lookout by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Conversing by Signs by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Approaching Buffalo, 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "A Shoshonee Indian Smoking by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-370848).jpg "Supplying Camp with Buffalo Meat, c.1858-60 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Trappers by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Bourgeois Walker and His Squaw by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Sioux Camp Scene by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Cavalcade, c.1858 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Yell of Triumph, 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-130994).jpg "Trappers Starting for the Beaver Hunt by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315335).jpg "Jim Bridger, in a Suit of English Armour by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-370846).jpg "Bull Boating, 1858-60 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "The Lost Greenhorn by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Portrait of Antoine by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-556).jpg "Shoshone Indians at a Mountain Lake (Lake Fremont) by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315853).jpg "Shoshones, Green River, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315847).jpg "Elk, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315329).jpg "Tribe Shoshone by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-899433).jpg "The Lake Her Lone Bosom Expands to the Sky by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1083622).jpg "Joseph R. Walker (1798-1876) by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Indian Girls Swinging by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Kansas Indian Recounting to a Trapper, by Signs, the Migration of Buffalo, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1425210).jpg "Pocahontas by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-143328).jpg "Shooting a Cougar by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315355).jpg "Lake Scene, Rocky Mountains by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "The Scalplock by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315331).jpg "Indian Female Running a Buffalo by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315857).jpg "Devil")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1316010).jpg "Indian Women, Shoshones, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Rock of Independence, 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-897707).jpg "Sioux Camp by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Interior of Fort Laramie, 1858-60 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Snake Indians by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Females, Snake Tribe, Driving Horses by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Trapping Beaver by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-141826).jpg "Roasting the Hump Rib, 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Indian Mourning over a Grave, Marked by a Buffalo Skull by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315673).jpg "Presents to Snake Indians, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Driving Herds of Buffalo over a Precipice, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Interior of Fort Laramie by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172655).jpg "Indian Runner, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "The Battle of Fort McHenry by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-114001).jpg "Election Scene, Catonsville, Baltimore County, c.1860 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Buffalo Hunt by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Crossing the Divide or Thirsty Trappers Making a Rush for the River by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Encampment on Green River at the Base of Rocky Mountains, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Chimney Rock by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315337).jpg "Group of Trappers and Indians by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "The Lost Greenhorn by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-900073).jpg "Where the Clouds Love to Rest, c.1850 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Sunrise, Trappers and Travellers at their Meals of Buffalo Hump Rib, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Sioux Women, Cut Rocks in the Distance by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "The Scalplock by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Indian Lodge, 1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Camp Fire at Night; Trapper Relating an Adventure by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315855).jpg "Breaking Trail to Escape from Indians, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315675).jpg "Caravan: Sir William Stewart Mounted on White Horse, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315858).jpg "Setting Traps for Beaver, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1316052).jpg "Shoshone Camp Fording a River, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315339).jpg "Taking the Hump Rib by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315352).jpg "Interior of an Indian Lodge by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315749).jpg "Lake Scene, Wind River Mountains by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172566).jpg "Captain Joseph Rutherford Walker by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315846).jpg "Root Diggers, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172399).jpg "Snakes Pursued by Blackfeet by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315850).jpg "Indians Testing Their Bows, c.1858 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Trappers and Snake Indians Conversing by Signs, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1316013).jpg "Wind River Mountains, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1042438).jpg "An Indian village. Work by Alfred Jacob Miller by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Snake Indians Watching the Approach of a Canoe by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Shoshone Female Throwing the Lasso by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315313).jpg "Bull Boating Across the Platte, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Trapper’s Encampment, Lake Scene, Wind River Mountains by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315502).jpg "Horse-Shoe Creek by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172654).jpg "Crow Indian on Lookout, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315671).jpg "Swan Lake, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Storm on the Caravan by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172400).jpg "Fontenelle Chased by a Grizzly Bear by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315856).jpg "Night Scene, Buffaloes on the Prairie, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Sioux Indian Guard by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315573).jpg "Antoine, Principal Hunter, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Election Scene, Catonsville, Baltimore County by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315492).jpg "Bee Hunters by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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.jpg "Indian Girl with Papoose Fording a Stream by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315578).jpg "Chain Lake in the Rocky Mountains, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315686).jpg "Francois Preparing Supper, c.1837 by Alfred Jacob Miller")
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