J. Laurie Wallace

G-206. Portrait of J. Laurie Wallace (circa 1883) by Thomas Eakins, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

John Laurie Wallace (1864 – 1953) was an Irish-born American painter.

Wallace was born in Garvagh, Ireland. His family immigrated to the United States when he was age 4.

He studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He posed for several of Eakins's paintings, including The Crucifixion (1880), Arcadia (1883) and The Swimming Hole (1884-85), and for dozens of photographs. In 1881 he became Eakins's assistant.

In 1891, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska to take the position of Director of the Western Art Association. That organization soon failed, but Wallace remained in Omaha, becoming a commissioned portrait painter and professor.

He died in Omaha, Nebraska in 1953, at the age of 89, and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha.

In Eakins works

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  G-143. Sketch for The Crucifixion (1880)
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  G-142. The Crucifixion (1880)
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  G-143a. Wallace Posing (circa 1883)
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  Wallace as The Piper (1883)
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  Wallace as The Piper (1883)
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  G-198. Youth Playing Pipes (1883)
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  G-196. Arcadia (1883)
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  G-508. Youth Playing Pipes (1883)
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  Eakins and Wallace, nude (circa 1883)
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  Eakins students bathing (1883)
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  G-190. The Swimming Hole (1884-85). Wallace is the standing man with hands on his hips

External links

• Portrait of Professor John Laurie Wallace , 1885 at Joslyn Art Museum
• J. Laurie Wallace Find A Grave Memorial