GEORGE CATLIN BIOGRAPHY
GEORGE CATLIN BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
CATLIN, GEORGE (1796-1872). —Painter and writer, born at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, practised for some time as a lawyer, but yielding to his artistic instincts he took to painting. He spent the 7 years, 1832-39, among the Indians of North America, of whom he painted about 500 portraits. He became thoroughly acquainted with their life, and pub. an interesting work, Illustrations of the Manners, etc., of the North American Indians (1857). His later years were spent chiefly in Europe.