Editing George Inness (section)

==Youth==
George Inness was born in [[Newburgh (town), New York|Newburgh, New York]].<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6">{{citation |editor-last=Roberts |editor-first=Norma J. |title=The American Collections |publisher=[[Columbus Museum of Art]] |year=1988 |isbn=0-8109-1811-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/americancollecti0000colu/page/6 6] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/americancollecti0000colu/page/6 }}</ref> He was the fifth of thirteen children born to John William Inness, a farmer, and his wife, Clarissa Baldwin.

His family moved to [[Newark, New Jersey]] when he was about five years of age.<ref>{{citation |last=Bell |first=Adrienne Baxter |title=George Inness and the Visionary Landscape |page=[https://archive.org/details/georgeinnessvisi0000unse/page/151 151] |publisher=George Braziller, Inc. |year=2003 |isbn=0-8076-1525-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/georgeinnessvisi0000unse/page/151 }}</ref> In 1839 he studied for several months with an itinerant painter, John Jesse Barker.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" />

In his teens, Inness worked as a map engraver in New York City, first for Sherman & Smith, and then N. Currier.<ref>{{cite web|title=George Inness|url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/inness-george/|access-date=14 August 2022}}</ref> During this time he attracted the attention of French landscape painter [[Régis François Gignoux]], with whom he subsequently studied.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" /> Throughout the mid-1840s he also attended classes at the [[National Academy of Design]], and studied the work of Hudson River School artists [[Thomas Cole]] and [[Asher Durand]]; "If," Inness later recalled thinking, "these two can be combined, I will try."<ref>{{harvnb|Bell|2003|p=151}}.</ref> He debuted his work at the National Academy in 1844.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" />

Inness opened his first studio in New York in 1848.<ref name="Columbus Museum of Art p.6" /> In 1849, he married Delia Miller, who died a few months later. The next year he married Elizabeth Abigail Hart, with whom he would have six children.<ref>{{harvnb|Bell|2003|p=152}}.</ref>