Remington Portraits

Fredric Remington did this painting of me sometime in the late 1890s.  Was quite nice of him.  I haven't changed all that much.

Remington was born October 4th 1861.
Took him years to develop his skill at painting.  Started with sketches that were somewhat mediocre. He attempted ranching, owning a hardware store and at one time, a saloon.  None of these fared well. 

He eventually became quite famous, though, as a painter of the ‘Old West’.  He was actually related to another artist of the time, George Catlin.  Catlin had done a portrait of me at another time.

Frederic Remington’s fame was helped along at one point by Teddy Roosevelt. He was commissioned by Roosevelt to do 83 illustrations for a book Teddy was doing.  The book was Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail.

You can find a marvellously complete biography of Fredric Remington here: https://www.frederic-remington.org/biography.html