Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874): A Pioneer of the American West Alfred Jacob Miller, born in Baltimore in 1810, occupies a unique and vital position in the narrative of American art. He wasn’t merely a painter of landscapes or portraits; he was a visual chronicler of a vanishing world – the fur trade era of the Rocky Mountains and the lives of the Native American tribes who inhabited them. His artistic journey began not with formal academic training but with an innate talent nurtured by early exposure to artists like Thomas Sully, marking him as an outlier amongst his peers. While attending…