Francis Lathrop

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Francis Lathrop (22 June 1849 – 18 October 1909) was an American artist.

He was born at sea, near the Hawaiian Islands, being the great-grandson of Samuel Holden Parsons, and the son of George Alfred Lathrop (1819–1877), who for some time was United States consul at Honolulu. He was a pupil of T. C. Farrar (1838–1891) in New York, and studied at the Royal academy of Dresden. In 1870–1873 he was in England, studying under Ford Madox Brown and Edward Coley Burne-Jones, and working in the school of William Morris, where he devoted particular attention to stained glass.

Returning to America in 1873, he became known as an illustrator, painted portraits, designed stained glass, and subsequently confined himself to decorative work. He designed the chancel of Trinity church, Boston, Massachusetts, and decorated the interior of Bowdoin college chapel, at Brunswick, Maine, and several churches in New York. The Marquand memorial window, in the chapel at Princeton, New Jersey, is an example of his work in stained glass. His latest work was a series of medallions for the building of the Hispanic-American society in New York. He was one of the charter members of the Society of American Artists, and became an associate of the National Academy of Design, New York. He died at Woodcliff, New Jersey, on 18 October 1909.