John Laporte - Night - River Landscape with a Ruined Abbey - B1975.4.1819 - Yale Center for British Art

John Laporte (1798–1862) was an English landscape painter and etcher, who worked in and around London, England. Laporte was born into a family of French Huguenot origins, possibly in London or in Ireland, and studied art under the Irish-born Huguenot painter John Melchior Barralet, either in London or Dublin. He became a drawing-master at the Addiscombe Military Seminary, Surrey.