He was trained by Matthew Harris Jouett before going to Europe, and he became a portrait painter in his home state of Kentucky.

[1] He did portraits of many Kentuckians such as James G. Birney, Edward Morton Le Grand, William Robertson McKee, and Richard Menefee.

[2] His portrait of Henry Clay is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[3] His papers are held at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.

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