People/CharactersGeorge C. Bingham

George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s. By the time of his bicentennial in 2011, he was considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century. That year the George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonné Supplement Of Paintings & Drawings—directed and edited by Bingham scholar Fred R. Kline—announced the authentication of ten recently discovered paintings by Bingham. As of June 2015, a total of twenty-three (23) newly discovered paintings by Bingham have been authenticated and are listed with the GCBCRS.

George Bingham in Wikipedia

In Perish from the Earth, by Jonatham F. Putname, he is used as a character who was on the War Eagle riverboat a couple of times, including the trip that Joshua Fry Speed joined, and during which John W. Jones was killed. Most of his adventures, and his sweetheart in the book are fictitious.