Karel la Fargue
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Karel la Fargue (1738–1793) was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic.
He was born in The Hague to Jan Thomas la Fargue and was the younger brother of Paulus Constantijn la Fargue.[1] His other siblings Maria Margaretha, Jacob Elias and Isaac Lodewijk also became painters.[1] In 1768 he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura, along with his brother Isaac.[1] Like his older brother, he is known for topographical views. He died in The Hague.
More than 200 years after his death, he was unmasked in 1998 as a prolific forger of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings, as described in the magazine Oud Holland.[2]
