LASTMAN LASTMAN, PIETER, born in Amster- dam (?) 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 Eome, 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 Lastmau must have returned to Amsterdam, as in that year or the next Rembrandt be- came his pupil there. Three pictures paint- ed 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 Nausicaii (1609), Brunswick Museum ; replica (1019), Augsburg Gal- lery ; Massacre of the Innocents, and David playing the Harp (1618), Brunswick Muse- um. In his third (style of Caravaggio), Mauoah and his Wife, formerly in Rotter- dam Museum ; Adoration of the Shepherds (1629), Haarlem Museum ; Raising of Laz- arus (1632), Hague Museum. Other works in public galleries : Herodias receiving the Head of St. John, Aschaft'euburg Gallery ; Ulysses and Nausicaii (1619), Augsburg Gallery ; Apollo and the Muses, Cassel Gal- lery ; Tobias (1618), Moltke Collection, Co- penhagen. Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 10 ; Bode, Studien, 341, 616 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1878), i. 130 ; Immerzeel, ii. 160 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 245 ; Kramin, iii. 954 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 201 ; Vosmaer, Rembrandt, ses pn'curseurs, etc. (1863), 105, 177 ; do., Rembrandt, sa vie, etc., 379. LATHROP, FRANCIS, born on the Pa- cific 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 L 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 Bal- timore ; in Trinity Church and the Bijou Theatre, Boston ; and the Chapel at Bow- doin College, Brunswick, Me. He has de- | signed illustrations for several books. LATIL, FRANCOIS VINCENT MA- THIEU, born at Aix, Feb. 2, 1796. His- tory painter, pupil of Gros and of the i Ecole des Beaux Arts. A careful and dili-
- gent artist, of no marked originality. Med-
als : 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 Vet- eran's Daughter (1838) ; Incident of the History of Shipwrecks (1841) ; Christ heal- ing a Possessed Man, St. Paul in Mace- donia (1845) ; Mission of the Apostles (1847) ; Portraits of Marshals Puysegur (1835) and Bercheny, and of Vice-Admiral Sunren, 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 Spoede, an obscure artist ; probably in 1722 he went to Rheims, and thence to Cambrai, I where, during the Congress of 1724, he rap- idly won a reputation and the favour of the English ambassador, who took him to Lon- don ; equally successful there, he soon re- turned 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
