biography
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Jarves, James Jackson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1818–88)
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| biography:
| Editor, art critic, and collector, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Born to wealth, he was educated privately, travelled extensively, and was the editor of the first weekly newspaper in the Hawaiian Islands, Polynesian (1840–8). He returned to the USA (1848), but in the 1850s he settled in Florence, Italy, where he collected and wrote about art, and served as the US vice-consul there (1880–2). In addition to his superb collection of early Italian paintings (which he donated to Yale), he collected Venetian glass and textiles, among other artifacts. |
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