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John La Farge

1835 - 1910

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John La Farge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics. La Farge made stained glass windows, mainly for churches on the American east coast, beginning with a large commission for Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church in Boston in 1878, and continuing for thirty years. La Farge designed stained glass as an artist, as a specialist in color, and as a technical innovator, holding a patent granted in 1880 for superimposing panes of glass. That patent would be key in his dispute with contemporary and rival Louis Comfort Tiffany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John La Farge is the 501st most popular painter (up from 1,942nd in 2019), the 1,918th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,207th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Painter.

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Among painters, John La Farge ranks 501 out of 2,023. Before him are Eugène Atget, Arman, Francisco Pacheco, Parrhasius, Leonor Fini, and Carlo Dolci. After him are Anselm Feuerbach, Jan Lievens, Antonis Mor, Peter Fendi, Willem van Aelst, and Ivan Bilibin.

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Among people born in 1835, John La Farge ranks 24. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi, William Stanley Jevons, Nikolai Rubinstein, Alexander Agassiz, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Hijikata Toshizō. After him are Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Adolph Wagner, Elisha Gray, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Mendele Mocher Sforim, and Sai Baba of Shirdi. Among people deceased in 1910, John La Farge ranks 36. Before him are Jean Moréas, Albert Anker, Mikhail Vrubel, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Karl Lueger, and Auguste Charlois. After him are Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Andreas Achenbach, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Charles Rolls, and Henri-Edmond Cross.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John La Farge ranks 1,918 out of 20,380. Before him are William Henry Pickering (1858), Richard Donner (1930), David McClelland (1917), Tobey Maguire (1975), Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951), and Jack Parsons (1914). After him are Jerry Zucker (1950), Conchata Ferrell (1943), Paul H. O'Neill (1935), Kevin James (1965), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), and Terry O'Quinn (1952).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, John La Farge ranks 15. Before him are Joseph Kosuth (1945), Norman Rockwell (1894), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Lyonel Feininger (1871), Richard Serra (1939), and Grant Wood (1891). After him are Frank Stella (1936), Dorothea Tanning (1910), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Will Sampson (1933), Sol LeWitt (1928), and Thomas Eakins (1844).

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