Flagg, Jared B. (Jared Bradley), 1820-1899

Jared Bradley Flagg, an Episcopalian priest, painter, writer and founder of the Yale Art Library, was the nephew of painter Washington Allston, and wrote the Life and Letters of Washington Allston. Johnson (b. Laura Winthrop) wrote prose and poetry, including Poems of Twenty Years (1874), 800 Miles in an Ambulance (1899), and The Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop (1884). Her father, Francis Bayard Winthrop, Jr. of New Haven, Conn., collected works of art, including those of Allston.

From the description of Jared B. Flagg letter to Mrs. [Oliver Templeton] Johnson regarding Washington Allston sketch, 1892 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557027