Published image.  Henry Colton Shumway (4 July 1807 – 6 May 1884) was an American soldier and artist.[1] He was born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1807 and died in New York City in 1884.[1]Shumway studied at the Academy of Design in New York City. He painted Governor John Trumbull, Daniel Webster, John Frazee and Henry Clay. At the height of his career, his paintings sold for three hundred dollars. With the advent of photography in the 1860s, Shumway and other artists stopped miniature painting and produced hand-colored daguerreotypes.[1]Shumway worked in Connecticut, New Orleans, and for a long period in New York where he exhibited his work from 1829 to 1860. He did miniature paintings. Later in his career he did large rectangular works.   Henry Cotton Shumway was a portrait painter and photographer who spent much of his career in New York City. He was also a member of the Seventh Regiment of New York, where he served as a captain for 28 years. He served with the regiment in the Civil War.Shumway was likely part of a committee the Seventh Regiment sent to Washington DC in 1858. This committee was looking to secure additional arms for the regiment and was successful in this task thanks to William Henry Seward's assistance. According to a letter published in The Washington Union in October 1858, this committee consisted of Lieutenant Colonel Marshall Lefferts, Captain Henry C. Shumway, Major Benjamin M. Nevers, Captain James Monroe, and Reverend Doctor Sullivan H. Weston.