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LAFCADIO, John Sebastian, R.A., b. 1845, d. 1912. Painter. Entered studio of William Pakenham, R.A., 1861. Lived in Italy, 1865-1878. First exhibited Royal Academy, 1871; A.R.A., 1881; R.A., 1900; m. 1880, Arabella Theodora, d. of Sir J. and Lady Reid of Wendon Parva, Sussex. One son, John Sebastian, b. 1890. Killed in action, 1916. Best known works include: “The Girl at the Pool” (Nat. Gallery), “Group in Sunlight” (Tate), “Belle Darling” (Louvre), “Portraits of Three Young Men” (Boston), “Meeting of the Magi” and “Satirical Portrait” (Yokohama), etc., etc., also Loan Collection of forty works destroyed in Moscow, 1918. Cf. The Life and Work of Lafcadio, Vols. 1, 2, & 3, Max Fustian; The Victorian Iconoclast, Mrs. Betsy Fragonard; The Moscow Tragedy, Max Fustian; Lafcadio the Man, Max Fustian; Biographie d’un maître de peinture à l’huile, Ulysses Lafourchardière; Weitere Bemerkungen zur Wahl der Bilder von John Lafcadio, Gunther Wagner.

—Weber’s Who’s Who in Art

LAFCADIO, J., see Charles Tanqueray, Letters to (Phelps, 15/-)

—Dent’s Dictionary of Authors

“LAFCADIO, ... the man who saw himself the first painter in Europe and whom we who are left recognize as the last.”

—K.J.R. in The Times, April 16, 1912