La Farge
JOHN (lä färj), an American artist; born in New York City, March 31, 1835. He studied under Couture in Paris, and became a National Academician in 1869; and a member of the Society of American Artists in 1877.
He executed remarkable paintings, altar pieces, and decorations of interiorsnotably of Trinity Church, Boston; and designed stained-glass windows for churches and many other buildings, in the new American manner, which is a revival of the art of making colored glass (instead of painting glass), of which he was the originator in association with Louis Tiffany. He was the designer of the "battle window" in Memorial Hall, Harvard University. In 1869 he was made president of the Society of American Artists. He published a volume of "Lectures on Art," and "An Artist's Letters from Japan."
He died Nov. 14, 1910.