John la Farge (1835-1910)

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  John La Farge 1835-1910 , Roses in a Blue Crackle Glass Pitcher watercolor and gouache over pencil on paper

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  JOHN LA FARGE 1835-1910 SNOW. SKETCH: HILLSIDE WITH CEDARS. EVENING. Measurements: 12in. by 9.25in. Alternate Measurements: (30.5 by 23.6 cm) oil on panel Painted in 1873. We are grateful to Dr. James L. Yarnall for his assistance in cataloguing this

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  JOHN LA FARGE

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  JOHN LA FARGE American (1835-1910) "Canoe going from up the Coast to Apia-Samoa" watercolor and gouache, unsigned, titled and number...

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John la Farge Biography

(b New York, 31 March 1835; d Newport, RI, 14 Nov 1910). American painter, decorative artist and writer. He grew up in New York in a prosperous and cultivated French-speaking household. He received his first artistic training at the age of six from his maternal grandfather, an amateur architect and miniature painter. While at Columbia Grammar School, he learnt English watercolour techniques and afterwards studied briefly with George Inness’s teacher, the landscape painter Régis-François Gignoux. In 1856, while touring Europe, he spent a few weeks in Thomas Couture’s studio. Returning to New York via England, he was impressed by the Pre-Raphaelite paintings at the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition of 1857 and later said that they had influenced him when he began to paint. In 1859 he decided to devote himself to art and moved to Newport, RI, to study with William Morris Hunt.

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