ALFRED JACOB MILLER'S "PORTRAIT OF ANTOINE"

Alfred Jacob Miller was a young man of twenty-seven when he attended the celebrated rendevous of hunters and trappers along the Green River in present-day Wyoming, producing, on his return to New Orleans, a series of eighty-seven pen-and-ink washes and watercolors recording the trip for his patron, Captain William Drummond Stewart. Miller retained his field sketches and continued to paint from them for the remainder of his life. The Walters' oil portrait of Antoine Clement is one of nearly thirty paintings commissioned by Stewart, in several of which Antoine, described by Miller as "one of the noblest specimens of a Western hunter," appears as a major figure.