John La Farge

John La Farge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American artiste whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books upon his Asian travels and other art-related topics.

La Farge is best known for his production of stained glass, mainly for churches on the American east coast, beginning like 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 contracted in 1880 for superimposing panes of glass. That patent would be key in his dispute taking into consideration contemporary and foe Louis Comfort Tiffany.

La Farge rented sky in the Tenth Street Studio Building at its creation in 1858, and he became a longtime presence in Greenwich Village. In 1863 he was elected into the National Academy of Design; in 1877 he co-founded the Society of American Artists in pestering at the National Academy's conservatism. In 1892 La Farge was brought upon as an speculative with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Schools to manage to pay for vocational training to students in New York City. He served as President of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1899 to 1904. In 1904, he was one of the first seven artists fixed for association in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

La Farge is acclaimed in the Episcopal Church, sharing a feast hours of daylight of December 16 upon the liturgical calendar, along in imitation of American architects Ralph Adams Cram and Richard Upjohn.