Jared Bradley Flagg (June 16, 1820 – September 25, 1899) was an American painter.

Early life

Flagg was born on June 16, 1820, in

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. He was a son of Martha (

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Whiting) Flagg (1792–1875) and Henry Collins Flagg, the one time mayor of New Haven. He was the younger brother of artists

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and Henry Collins Flagg III. The Flagg brothers all studied painting under their famous uncle,

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, and received some recognition of their own. In 1836, when he was only sixteen years old, Jared exhibited a portrait of his father in the National Academy and was favorably noticed by the critics.

Career

As a young man, Flagg settled in

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. He moved to New York in 1849 and was soon elected an

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. Jared pursued the study of theology at intervals with his art, and, in 1854, he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Flagg received the degree of A.M. from

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in 1861, and that of S.T.D. from

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in 1863. Flagg served as an Episcopal minister for a decade, including as Rector of Grace Church Brooklyn Heights, until he resumed the practice of his art. He occasionally painted ideal figure pictures but made portraits his specialty. Among Flagg's more notable portraits are of several of the judges of the

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, including a three-quarter length of Chief Justice Sanford E. Church (which was placed in the new state capitol);

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Daniel Russell Brown (which was placed in the

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); an 1887 life-size full-length portrait of William M. Evarts (which also hung in the capitol; and several portraits of

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(one of which hangs in the directors' room at the Grand Central depot in New York); and William H. Vanderbilt, among others. Other notable paintings by Jared Flagg include ''Holy Thoughts'' and ''Paul before Felix'' (1849), and ''Angelo and Isabella'' (1850). Flagg wrote a biography of his uncle

, published by

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in 1892.

Notable portraits

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, 1877 File:Cornelius Vanderbilt.jpg, Portrait of

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, 1879 File:Portrait of William Evarts - New York Supreme Court.jpg, Portrait of William M. Evarts, 1887 File:RI Governor D. Russell Brown.jpg, Flagg's official portrait of

Daniel Russell Brown,

Personal life

Flagg was married three times. His first marriage was to Sarah Montague (1823–1844) on December 30, 1841. Together, Sarah and Jared were the parents of: * Montague Flagg (1842–1915), a portrait painter who married Elise Cordier (d. 1916). After Sarah's death in 1844, he remarried to Amelia Louisa Hart (1828–1867) on December 1, 1846. Amelia was a daughter of Dr. Samuel Hart and Orpha (née North) Hart. Her older brother, Samuel Waldo Hart, served as the Mayor of New Britain, Connecticut. Together, Jared and Amelia were the parents of:Flagg, Lucius C.S. ''Family Records of the Descendants of Gershom Flagg.'' Quincy, Ill., 1907, pp. 125, 128. * Charles Noel Flagg (1848–1916), an artist who married Ellen Fanny Earle (1852–1920), daughter of Morris Earle, in 1874. * Jared Bradley Flagg Jr.(1853–1926), a New York City investor who was convicted of operating a

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with Daniel N. Morgan, who had been

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under

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. *

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(1857–1947), a notable architect who married Margaret Elizabeth Bonnell (1882–1978) in 1899. * Washington Allston Flagg (1860–1903), who married Anna Davis Robins (1865–1939) in 1886. After his death, she married John Turner Atterbury in 1908. * Louise Flagg (1862–1948), who married publisher

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. * Rosalie Allston Flagg (1866–1949), who married William Dexter Jaffray (1863–1949). After Amelia's death in 1867, he married for the third time to Josephine Bond (1832–1911) in 1869. Josephine was a daughter of Lucy (née Strong) Bond and Judge William Key Bond, a former

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from Ohio. Flagg died of heart disease on September 25, 1899, at 253 West 42nd Street, his residence in New York City. After a funeral at St. Bartholomew's Church at the corner of 44th Street and

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, he was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven.

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