George Catlin’s touring Indian Gallery does not…

George Catlin’s touring Indian Gallery does not attract the paying public.

He needs to stay financially sound, and Congress has rejected his initial petition to purchase the works, so in 1839, Catlin takes his collection across the Atlantic for a tour of European capitals.

Catlin the showman and entrepreneur initially attracts crowds to his Indian Gallery in London, Brussels, and Paris.

The French critic Charles Baudelaire remarks on Catlin’s paintings, “M. Catlin has captured the proud, free character and noble expression of these splendid fellows in a masterly way.”