Enlarge Image More Works of Art			Portrait of the Painter, 1859 John La Farge Oil on wood panel Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1934 (34.134) The artist portrays himself as a landscapist ready to embark on a painting expedition. This self-portrait, which La Farge executed in October 1859 at his family's estate in Glen Cove, Long Island, is based on a photograph. It reflects his appreciation of the unmodulated shapes and flattened space of Japanese prints; his reliance on broad tonal masses in the manner of his teachers, Thomas Couture and William Morris Hunt; and his experiments in plein-air landscape painting.

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