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1) Seth Eastman, born in Brunswick, Maine on January 24, 1808 to August 31, 1875 (aged 67), was an artist and West Point graduate who served in the U.S. Army, first as a mapmaker and illustrator.
2) From 1833 to 1840, Eastman was assigned to West Point, where he taught drawing (used for mapmaking). While he was stationed in Minnesota as a commander, he studied and painted Native American life.
3) He painted and drew pictures of the Sioux villages of Kaposia and Little Crow, as well as settlements in present-day Scott, Wabasha, and Winona counties.
4) Eastman worked on some 275 pages of pictures to illustrate the massive Schoolcraft study, published in six volumes from 1851 to 1857. He work was precise and exquisitely executed illustrations.
5) Near the end of his career, at the rank of lieutenant colonel, Eastman was commissioned by the House Committee on Military Affairs to paint pictures of seventeen important forts.
6) His other works include: Treatise on Topographical Drawing, New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1837, and Memoir of General Seth Eastman, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.: 1875.
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