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1811 - Born on the 20th of March in Augusta County, Virginia.
1823 - Mary Bingham opened a school for girls and George, worked as school janitor.
1827 - At age sixteen, George apprenticed with cabinetmaker Jesse Green.
1830 - George was painting portrait for $20.00 a piece.
1836 - Married Sarah Elizabeth Hutchison.
1838 - George was already beginning to make a name for himself as a portait artist in St. Louis
1845 - Painted the "Fur traders on Missouri River".
1848 - George was elected to the Missouri General Assembly.
1851-1852 - He painted "Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap", oil on canvas.
1856-1859 - Bingham studied art with the members of the Düsseldorf School in Düsseldorf, Germany.
1874 - President of the Board of Police Commissioners for Kansas City, Missouri.
Became the Professor of art at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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