James Jackson Jarves

James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888) was an American newspaper editor, and art critic who is remembered above all as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters.

Books

Japanese Art and Japonisme

William Anderson, Christopher Dresser, John La Farge, James Jackson Jarves, Marcus Bourne Huish, Sir Rutherford Alcock

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