First, thanks for posting the other images of Vollard. I tried to post that to you earlier today, but there was a glitch and I had to run before solving it.
That is one of the best Catlin images I've ever seen. It is perhaps freer because it is unfinished.
I think he did tend to fuss too much over his work. Probably because he began his career as a miniaturist.
He was weak on landscapes and figure groups . . . but when he was concentrated on a single portrait he was amazing. Here's another one I really like:
See-non-ty-a, an Iowa medicine man.
I can't find a good copy of the full-length portrait of Old Bear the Mandan medicine man with all his considerable regalia, but in the original it is stunning.
