LAEVULOSE : see FRUCTOSE; CARBOHYDRATES ; SUGAR.
(1835-191o), American artist, was born in New York on March 31, 1835, of French parentage. He received instruction in drawing from his grandfather, Binsse de St. Victor, a painter of miniatures; studied law and architecture; entered the atelier of Thomas Couture in Paris, where he re mained a short time, giving especial attention to the studying and copying of old masters at the Louvre ; and began by making illustrations to the poets (1859). An intimacy with the artist William M. Hunt had a strong influence on him, the two working together at Newport (R.I.). La Farge painted landscape, still life and figure alike in the early '6os. But from 1866 on he was for some time incapacitated for work, and when he regained strength he did some decorative work for Trinity church, Boston, in 1876, and turned his attention to stained glass, becoming president of the Society of Mural Painters. Some of his important commis
sions include windows for St. Thomas's church (1877), St. Peter's church, the Paulist church, the Brick church (1882), the churches of the Incarnation (1885) and Ascension (1887), all New York; Trinity church, Buffalo, and the "Battle Window" in Memorial Hall at Harvard. He was also a prolific painter in oil and water colour, as seen notably in some water-colour sketches, the result of a voyage in the South Seas, shown in 1895. He became presi dent of the Society of American Artists, a member of the National Academy of Design in 1869, and an officer of the Legion of Hon our of France. He published Considerations on Painting (New York, 1895), Hokiisai: A Talk about Hokilsai (1897), and An Artist's letters front Japan (1897).
See Cecilia Waern, "John La Farge, Artist and Writer" (1896, No. 26 of The Portfolio).