[Pamphlets, clippings, etc., on the Jarves collection, including biography of James Jackson Jarves].

Jarves, James Jackson, 1818-1888

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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. Jarves was the editor of an early weekly newspaper in the Hawaiian Islands, the Polynesian (1840–48). During the 1850s, Jarves relocated to Florence, Italy where he served as the U.S. vice-consul and collected art. After other American museums refused to buy Jarves' collection, Yale University granted him a ...

Yale University. Art Gallery.

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