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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John La Farge has received more than 187,184 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John La Farge is the 1,941st most popular painter (down from 1,670th in 2019), the 10,203rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,769th in 2019) and the 130th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John La Farge ranks 1,941 out of 2,023. Before him are Joseph DeCamp, David Smith, John Opie, Laura Knight, Elaine de Kooning, and William Duesbury. After him are John Sloan, Robert Peake the Elder, Nevin Çokay, Benjamin Wilson, Robert Reid, and Władysław Hasior.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, John La Farge ranks 89. Before him are Richard Olney, A. V. Dicey, William Stanley Haseltine, Vítězslav Hálek, Lyman Abbott, and Rebecca Latimer Felton. After him are Fitzhugh Lee, Émile Léonard Mathieu, Alfred Austin, and Emily Faithfull. Among people deceased in 1910, John La Farge ranks 106. Before him are Albert Nasse, Nikolaos Deligiannis, Adolf Schwarz, Octave Chanute, Granville Woods, and Antonín Slavíček. After him are Worthington Whittredge, George Newnes, George Henry Williams, Joe Gans, John G. Carlisle, and Julius Kühn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John La Farge ranks 10,203 out of 20,380. Before him are Martin Luther King III (1957), Kurt Sutter (1960), Merv Griffin (1925), Bruce Hornsby (1954), Julee Cruise (1956), and Sidney Darlington (1906). After him are Lillian Wald (1867), Aline MacMahon (1899), Edward Brooke (1919), George Ariyoshi (1926), William C. McCool (1961), and Norman Granz (1918).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, John La Farge ranks 130. Before him are George Caleb Bingham (1811), Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823), J. Alden Weir (1852), Thomas Doughty (1793), David Smith (1906), and Elaine de Kooning (1918). After him are John Sloan (1871), Robert Reid (1862), N. C. Wyeth (1882), William Glackens (1870), George Luks (1867), and Arthur Wesley Dow (1857).

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