Background
Jared B. Flagg was born on June 16, 1820, in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Henry Collins Flagg, II and Martha Whiting, and brother of George Whiting Flagg.
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Washington Allston (1779-1843) was considered by many at the time to be the greatest painter yet produced by the United States. After four years at Harvard, where he made an impression with his poetry, he went to London and became a pupil of the artist Benjamin West. On a tour of the continent, he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Rome, painted his portrait and became his firm friend. After a period at home, during which he married, Allston returned to London, and through Coleridge met Wordsworth, Southey, and the earl of Egremont, the great patron of artists, especially J. W. M. Turner. In this environment of intellectual and artistic experiment, Allston created paintings on religious, literary and historical topics, with an emphasis on landscape and contrasts of light and dark. This 1893 biography by his nephew and pupil Jared Bradley Flagg (1820-99) throws light on the artist, his works, and his milieu.
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Jared B. Flagg was born on June 16, 1820, in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Henry Collins Flagg, II and Martha Whiting, and brother of George Whiting Flagg.
Flagg attended a Lancasterian school and later went to Trinity College, Hartford, but did not graduate.
At sixteen Flagg began his training in art, receiving instruction from his brother and his uncle, Washington Allston. At this time he painted a portrait of his father which was exhibited at the National Academy and won favorable notice.
Flagg received Master of Arts degree from Trinity College in 1861, and that of Doctor of Sacred Theology from Columbia University in 1863.
Flagg settled for a time in Hartford, Connecticut, where he became prominent as a portrait-painter, but in 1849 he moved to New York. There he studied theology, was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1854, and priest in 1855.
Flagg was rector of the church of St. James at Birmingham, Connecticut (1854 - 1855), and of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, where he remained until 1863. Upon the termination of the latter rectorate he gave up ministerial service.
Meanwhile he had continued his painting, having been elected to the National Academy in 1849.
Flagg, though perhaps best known as a portraitist, also painted some ideal pictures. His work, characterized by refinement, found contemporary favor with a large circle of people. He was a chosen adviser in the establishment of the Yale Art Library, and to the field of biography he contributed the Life and Letters of Washington Allston, published in 1892.
His best-known paintings include: "Angelo and Isabella, " from Measure for Measure" (1849); "Paul before Felix" (1850); "Poet's Captive" (1877); "Holy Thoughts"; "Grandfather's pet"; and "Hester Prynne in Prinson. "
Among his portraits are those of Bishop Littlejohn (1880), Chief-Justice Church of New York (1884), Frederick Tappan (1896), John Jay, Reverdy Johnson, Henry Stanbery Judje Peckham, and several of Comodore Vanderbilt.
Jared Bradley Flagg died on September 25, 1899, in New York City, New York, New York.
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Young Jared pursued the study of theology at intervals with his art, and, in 1854, he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Jared B. Flagg became a member of the National Academy in 1849.
On December 30, 1841, Jared B. Flagg married Sarah R. Montague in Hartford, Connecticut.
Mrs. Flagg died on January 25, 1844, and on December 1, 1846, Flagg married Louisa Hart, daughter of Dr. Samuel Hart of New Britain, Connecticut.
After the death of his second wife, January 18, 1867, he married Josephine Bond, daughter of Judge Bond of Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 19, 1869.
Jared B. Flagg had several children.