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LASTMAN, PIETER, born in Amsterdam(?) between 1580 and 1584, died at Haarlem in 1649(?). Dutch school; history painter, pupil of Gerrit Pieterz, on leaving whose studio, between 1600 and 1602, he went to Rome, where for many years he was one of the Dutch and Flemish artists who grouped themselves about Elsheimer and regarded him as their master. Before 1622 Lastman must have returned to Amsterdam, as in that year, or the next Rembrandt became his pupil there. Three pictures painted in Italy may be taken as examples of Lastman's first manner, namely: Repose in Egypt (1608), Rotterdam Museum; do. (1608), and Philip baptizing the Eunuch (1608), Berlin Museum. In his second transitional manner, under Italian influence, are Ulysses and Nausicaä (1609), Brunswick Museum; replica (1619), Augsburg Gallery; Massacre of the Innocents, and David playing the Harp (1618), Brunswick Museum. In his third (style of Caravaggio), Manoah and his Wife, formerly in Rotterdam Museum; Adoration of the Shepherds (1629), Haarlem Museum; Raising of Lazarus (1632), Hague Museum. Other works in public galleries: Herodias receiving the Head of St. John, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Ulysses and Nausicaä (1619), Augsburg Gallery; Apollo and the Muses, Cassel Gallery; Tobias (1618), Moltke Collection, Copenhagen.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 10; Bode, Studien, 341, 616; Gaz. des B. Arts (1878), i. 130; Immerzeel, ii. 160; Kugler (Crowe), i. 245; Kramm, iii. 954; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 201; Vosmaer, Rembrandt, sés précurseurs, etc. (1863), 105, 177; do., Rembrandt, sa vie, etc., 379.

LATHROP, FRANCIS, born on the Pacific Ocean, near the Sandwich Islands, June 22, 1849. Portrait and decorative painter, pupil of T. C. Farrer in New York in 1863, and of the Royal Academy, Dresden, in 1868. In 1870-73 he studied under Madox Brown in London, and assisted William Morris, Spencer Stanhope, and Edward Burne-Jones in execution of various works. Has painted in the United States since 1873. Member of Society of American Artists. His chief decorative works are in the Metropolitan Opera House and the Hoffman House, New York, and in private residences in New York, Albany, and Baltimore; in Trinity Church and the Bijou Theatre, Boston; and the Chapel at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. He has designed illustrations for several books.

LATIL, FRANÇOIS VINCENT MATHIEU, born at Aix, Feb. 2, 1796. History painter, pupil of Gros and of the École des Beaux Arts. A careful and diligent artist, of no marked originality. Medals: 2d class, 1827; 1st class, 1841. Works: Byranus leaving Olympia (1824); Washing the Feet (1827); Morality of the People during the Suspension of the Laws in July, 1830, Joseph's Coat (1830); The Veteran's Daughter (1838); Incident of the History of Shipwrecks (1841); Christ healing a Possessed Man, St. Paul in Macedonia (1845); Mission of the Apostles (1847); Portraits of Marshals Puységur (1835) and Berchény, and of Vice-Admiral Suffren, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, i. 917; Larousse.

LA TOUR, MAURICE QUENTIN DE, born at Saint-Quentin (Aisne), Sept 5, 1704, died there, Feb. 17, 1788. French school; portrait painter in pastel, pupil in Paris of Spoëde, an obscure artist; probably in 1722 he went to Rheims, and thence to Cambrai, where, during the Congress of 1724, he rapidly won a reputation and the favour of the English ambassador, who took him to London; equally successful there, he soon returned to Paris, introducing himself as an English painter, and became so prominent in his branch that the Academy, fearing detriment to all other branches, closed its