American artist (died 1910)

John La Farge

John La Farge 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.

Born

1835

March 31

Died

1910

Era

1830s

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1910 Died

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The world in 1910

When John departed

april 12 SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
april 16 The oldest indoor ice hockey arena used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
april 28 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
april 29 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.

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Alfred Austin 1835– English author, poet, and playwright (died 1913) Elisha Gray 1835–1901 American businessman, co-founded Western Electric (died 1901) Mark Twain 1835–1910 American novelist, humorist, and critic (born 1835) Tom Wills 1835–1880 Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football (died 1880)

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