James Jackson Jarves

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James Jackson Jarves (1818 – 1888) was an American newspaper editor, art critic and art collector. Jarves was the editor of the first weekly newspaper in the Hawaiian Islands, the Polynesian (1840–1848).

During the 1850s, Jarves relocated to Florence, Italy where he served as the U.S. vice-consul and collected art.[1] [2] In 1871, the Yale University Art Gallery purchased 119 early Italian paintings from Jarves at auction.[3]

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  • History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands: Embracing Their Antiquities, Mythology, Legends, Discovery by Europeans in the Sixteenth Century, Re-Discovery by Cook, with Their Civil, Religious and Political History, from the Earliest Traditionary Period to the Present Time (1843)
  • Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands, and a trip through Central America: being observations from my notebooks during the years 1837-1842 (1843)
  • Parisian Sights and French Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles (1852)
  • Parisian Sights and French Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles, Second Series (1855)
  • Art-Hints, Architecture, Sculpture and Painting (1855)
  • Italian Sights and Papal Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles (1856)
  • Kiana: A Tradition of Hawaii (1857)
  • Why and What Am I? The Confessions of an Inquirer, In Three Parts. Part I. Heart-Experience; or, The Education of the Emotions (1857)
  • Art Studies: The "Old Masters" of Italy; Painting (1861)
  • The Art-Idea: Part Second of Confessions of an Inquirer (1864)
  • Art Thoughts, The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe (1870)
  • A Glimpse at the Art of Japan (1876)
  • Italian Rambles, Studies of Life and Manners in New and Old Italy (1883)
  • Pepero, the Boy-Artist. A Brief Memoir of James Jackson Jarves, Jr. (1891)

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  1. ^ Jarves, James Jackson, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001-05
  2. ^ James Jackson Jarves Biography (1818–88)
  3. ^ Branch, Mark Alden. Lost and Found, Yale Alumni Magazine, May 2000
  4. ^ Steegmuller, Francis. The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951), pp. 309-310. 

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