Thomas Allibone Janvier

Thomas Allibone Janvier (July 16, 1849 – June 18, 1913) was an American story-writer and historian, born in Philadelphia of Provençal descent.

A few years after arriving, he published the Ivory Black Stories, tales of artist life, which were reprinted in book form in 1885 as Color Studies.

In them he pictured the life and color of what was then considered the Latin quarter of the city, with the old-fashioned French restaurants, the artist colony to the north, and the studios oĘn Tenth Street where Abbey, Millet, F. Hopkinson Smith, Laffan and others made the Tile Club famous.

His travels in Mexico produced the Aztec Treasure House and his stories of Old New Spain.

[2] He and his wife also lived for three years in Avignon, Provence, France, where they became friends with Mistral and Felix Gras.