Jared Bradley Flagg
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| Born | June 16, 1820 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | September 25, 1899 (aged 79) New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Minister, painter |
| Spouses | Sarah Montague
(m. 1841; died 1844)Amelia Louisa Hart
(m. 1846; died 1867)Josephine Bond (after 1869) |
| Children | 7, including Ernest Flagg |
| Parent(s) | Henry Collins Flagg Martha Whiting Flagg |
| Relatives | George Whiting Flagg (brother) Washington Allston (uncle) |
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Jared Bradley Flagg (June 16, 1820 – September 25, 1899) was an American painter.
Flagg was born on June 16, 1820, in New Haven, Connecticut.[1] He was a son of Martha (née Whiting) Flagg (1792–1875) and Henry Collins Flagg, the one time mayor of New Haven.[2] He was the younger brother of artists George Whiting Flagg and Henry Collins Flagg III.
The Flagg brothers all studied painting under their famous uncle, Washington Allston, and received some recognition of their own. In 1836, when he was only sixteen years old, Jared exhibited a portrait of his father in the National Academy and was favorably noticed by the critics.[3]
Career
As a young man, Flagg settled in Hartford, Connecticut. He moved to New York in 1849 and was soon elected an academician. Jared pursued the study of theology at intervals with his art, and, in 1854, he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church.[3] Flagg received the degree of A.M. from Trinity College in 1861, and that of S.T.D. from Columbia University in 1863.[1]
Flagg served as an Episcopal minister for a decade, including as Rector of Grace Church Brooklyn Heights,[4] until he resumed the practice of his art. He occasionally painted ideal figure pictures but made portraits his specialty. Among Flagg's more notable portraits are of several of the judges of the New York Court of Appeals, including a three-quarter length of Chief Justice Sanford E. Church (which was placed in the new state capitol); Rhode Island Governor Daniel Russell Brown (which was placed in the Rhode Island State House); an 1887 life-size full-length portrait of William M. Evarts (which also hung in the capitol; and several portraits of Commodore Vanderbilt (one of which hangs in the directors' room at the Grand Central depot in New York); and William H. Vanderbilt, among others.[1] Other notable paintings by Jared Flagg include Holy Thoughts and Paul before Felix (1849), and Angelo and Isabella (1850).[3]
Flagg wrote a biography of his uncle Washington Allston, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1892.[5][6][7]
Notable portraits
Portrait of Rebecca Greenleaf Webster, c. 1840
Portrait of Alice Pike Barney, 1876
Portrait of William Henry Vanderbilt, 1877
Portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1879
Portrait of William M. Evarts, 1887
