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American painter and art critic (1907–1975)
Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect
Fairfield_Porter
American photographer (1901–1990)
medical researcher. One of Eliot Porter's five siblings was the painter and art critic Fairfield Porter. Fairfield Porter introduced his older brother to
Eliot_Porter
Art museum in Water Mill, New York
Chase and by the groundbreaking post-war American realist painter Fairfield Porter. The Museum was founded in 1898 by Samuel Longstreth Parrish, a successful
Parrish_Art_Museum
Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States
Hancock County. It has long belonged to the family of the painter Fairfield Porter and his brother photographer Eliot, both of whom did creative work
Great_Spruce_Head_Island
American painter (1929–1982)
moved to New York City in the early 1950s. He became friends with Fairfield Porter and Frank O'Hara and assumed his part in the New York School of Painters
John_Button_(artist)
Village in Illinois, United States
Winnetka Ralph Pomeroy, poet and writer Eliot Porter, photographer, was born and grew up in Winnetka. Fairfield Porter, painter and art critic, was born and grew
Winnetka,_Illinois
American expressionist painter (1918–1989)
Coleman; Brazilian soccer player Pelé; and painters Joop Sanders, Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz and her husband, Willem de Kooning. Although she worked
Elaine_de_Kooning
monograph on Fairfield Porter, A Realist Painter in the Age of Abstraction with John Ashbery, among others, to accompany the 1983 Porter retrospective
Kenworth_Moffett
American poet
work. From 1961 to 1973 Schuyler lived with Fairfield Porter and his family in Southampton, Long Island. Porter became an influence for Schuyler as well
James_Schuyler
contemporary subjects and solid technique, like Milton Avery, John D. Graham, Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, Balthus, Francis Bacon, Nicolas de Staël, Andrew Wyeth
History_of_painting
(1900–1988) George Lorenzo Noyes (1863–1945) Waldo Peirce (1884–1970) Fairfield Porter (1907–1975) Maurice Prendergast (1861–1924) Edward Willis Redfield
List_of_Maine_painters
American art historian
published the biography Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, drawing upon previously unpublished correspondence to which Porter's widow, Anne, gave Spike
John_Spike
American painter (1924–2014)
including painters Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, and poets of the New York School including John Ashbery
Jane_Freilicher
City in Ohio, US
June 13, 2019. Fairfield, Ohio by Esther R. Benzing, Porter Printing Fairfield at Creation Robert F. Wessel, Writer's Club Press Fairfield, Ohio From the
Fairfield,_Ohio
American painter (1919–2011)
Schuyler. Although he lived elsewhere, the painter Fairfield Porter had a studio on the same block. Porter, who shared socialist views with Langerhans, provided
Edith_Schloss
Art museum in Connecticut, United States
Ellen Emmet Rand, Guy Wiggins, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Hart Benton, Fairfield Porter, George Bellows, Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt Peale, Georges Braque, Edward
William_Benton_Museum_of_Art
American artist (1983–2015)
Luc Tuymans, as well as American painters such as Mark Rothko and Fairfield Porter. In 2012, he founded the Underground Museum with his wife, the sculptor
Noah_Davis_(painter)
Modernist art movement
Hartigan, Lester Johnson, Alex Katz, George McNeil (artist), Jan Muller, Fairfield Porter, Gregorio Prestopino, Larry Rivers and Bob Thompson. Lyrical Abstraction
Expressionism
American painter
In a letter to a friend written in the summer of 1960, the artist Fairfield Porter (a classmate of Renouf's at Harvard) left a brief portrait of Renouf
Edward_Renouf_(artist)
Town in Maine, United States
the home town of the dock that was the inspiration for the painter Fairfield Porter. Many small private islands can be found in the waters surrounding
Deer_Isle,_Maine
Art museum in Maine, U.S.
those shows also included such artists as Alex Katz, Louise Nevelson, Fairfield Porter, and William Zorach, to name just a few. In 1967, a new director, Mildred
Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Center_for_Maine_Contemporary_Art
American author and art historian
has also written biographies of the artists Fairfield Porter and Paul Cadmus. A reviewer described the Porter biography as "a fully rounded portrait of
Justin_Spring_(writer)
American voice actor (1924–2010)
landscapes and figures reminiscent of those of artists Leland Bell and Fairfield Porter. Swift died in his home of at the age of 86 on April 18, 2010. He had
Allen_Swift
James Stevenson, b. 1929, illustrator and author. Two sons of artist Fairfield Porter. He corresponded at length with Elizabeth Moos in 1941 about his sons'
Hessian_Hills_School
Group of American artists active in the 1950-60s in New York City
connections between the poets and painters such as Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, and Larry Rivers (who was O'Hara's lover). There were many joint works
New_York_School_(art)
Day of the year
1974 – Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (born 1922) 1975 – Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (born 1907) 1977 – Paul Bernays, English-Swiss
September_18
Visual arts movement
(1918–1989); Balcomb Greene, (1904–1990); Robert De Niro Sr. (1920–1993); Fairfield Porter, (1907–1975); Gregorio Prestopino (1907–1984); Lester Johnson (1919–2010);
New York Figurative Expressionism
New_York_Figurative_Expressionism
1970. Through Nancy he was a brother-in-law of photographer Eliot Porter and painter Fairfield Porter. Bureau of Reclamation photo and biography v t e
Michael_W._Straus
Surname list
American physician Evan Porter (born 1987), American baseball player and coach Ewan Porter (born 1982), Australian golfer Fairfield Porter (1907–1975), American
Porter_(surname)
Art produced in the Western world
subjects. They include artists as varied as Milton Avery, John D. Graham, Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Balthus, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach
Western_painting
Harry Mintz (d. 2002), painter Walter Tandy Murch (d. 1967), painter Fairfield Porter (d. 1975), painter Gregorio Prestopino (d. 1984), painter George Rickey
List of American artists 1900 and after
List_of_American_artists_1900_and_after
American poet (1942–1994)
Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Alex Katz, Edwin Denby, Larry Rivers, Fairfield Porter, James Schuyler, Jane Freilicher, Virgil Thomson, John Ashbery, among
Joe_Brainard
Art museum in Missouri, United States
Graves, Dale Chihuly, Arthur Dove, Louise Bourgeois, Andrew Wyeth, Fairfield Porter, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Stella, Lesley Dill, Romare Bearden, Christian
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Kemper_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art
Day of the year
1988) 1904 – Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (died 1955) 1907 – Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (died 1975) 1907 – Dicky Wells, American
June_10
German-American Marxist theorist (1904–1981)
with Ilse Hamm, a young German émigré and educator he met through Fairfield Porter. Mattick worked briefly at a bookstore and then in a factory developing
Paul_Mattick
Historic house in Louisiana, United States
Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin. Salvador Dalí, Alex Katz, Fairfield Porter, and Georges Rouault. The collection also features the work of distinguished
Masur_Museum_of_Art
Russian painter and designer Bertalan Pór (1880–1964), Hungarian painter Fairfield Porter (1907–1975), American painter and art critic Candido Portinari (1903–1962)
List of painters by name beginning with "P"
List_of_painters_by_name_beginning_with_"P"
Art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii
Amédée Ozenfant, Charles Willson Peale, James Peale, Camille Pissarro, Fairfield Porter, Robert Priseman, Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Diego Rivera,
Honolulu_Museum_of_Art
Art school in Manhattan, New York
Roger Tory Peterson Bert Geer Phillips I. Rice Pereira Jackson Pollock Fairfield Porter Edith Mitchill Prellwitz Henry Prellwitz Robert Rauschenberg Man Ray
Art Students League of New York
Art_Students_League_of_New_York
Art museum in Kansas City, Missouri
has contemporary work in the Bloch Building by Willem de Kooning, Fairfield Porter, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Agnes Martin, Bridget Riley, and
Nelson-Atkins_Museum_of_Art
American painter (b. 1927)
Dodd helped to change the face of painting in the state. Along with Fairfield Porter, Rackstraw Downes, Alex Katz, Charles DuBack, and Neil Welliver, Dodd
Lois_Dodd
Art in the Western world during the 20th century
technique, and unique expressivity like Milton Avery, John D. Graham, Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Balthus, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach
20th-century_Western_painting
Art museum in South Jefferson Street Pensacola, Florida
Other artists in the collection include John Marin, Miriam Schapiro, Fairfield Porter, Hunt Slonem, Alex Katz, Lynda Benglis, Milton Avery and Alexander
Pensacola_Museum_of_Art
American painter
artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, and poets John Ashbery and Frank O’Hara. Hornak's close
Ian_Hornak
American contemporary artist
Day. In interviews, he has credited the portrait of Frank O'Hara by Fairfield Porter as a major influence to start his artistic career, noting that the
Timothy_Callaghan
American painter and designer (1937–2015)
through those spaces he describes.” The critic compared the artist to Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, and Charles Sheeler. Lewton painted from a young age
Val_Lewton_(visual_artist)
Defunct art gallery in New York City
Twenty Years of Sculpture (1984) Art and Friendship (15 Friends of Fairfield Porter) (1984) George McNeil—Expressionism 1954-1984 (1984) Paul Resika (1985)
Artists'_Choice_Museum
American art magazine
McLuhan, Robert Motherwell, Eleanor Munro, Linda Nochlin, Frank O'Hara, Fairfield Porter, Harold Rosenberg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Schjeldahl
ARTnews
American painter (1937–2019)
such as John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and the more contemporary Fairfield Porter, Andrew Wyeth and Joan Mitchell. While on his honeymoon in Madeira
Charles_Reid_(painter)
American casting director (1929–1976)
Larry Poons, Lowell Nesbitt, Jacob Lawrence, Marisol, Joe Brainard and Fairfield Porter. The collection also houses a small collection of intimate paintings
Julius_Rosenthal_Wolf
Museum in Stony Brook, New York
Chase, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Charles Henry Miller, George Constant, Fairfield Porter, Jane Wilson, and Lumen Martin Winter. The museum's extensive archives
Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages
Long_Island_Museum_of_American_Art,_History,_and_Carriages
Venice Biennale national pavilion
Dickinson, Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, James McGarrell, Reuben Nakian, Fairfield Porter, Byron Burford — 33rd 1966 Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy
American_pavilion
American artist (1939–2009)
illustrations, Park painted landscapes as well as cityscapes in the style of Fairfield Porter. He was based in Bridgehampton, NY and his works were on exhibit at
Darragh_Park
American publisher (1916–2017)
Lloyd Goodrich, Albert P. Ryder, 128 pp., 86 ill. (16 in color); Fairfield Porter, Thomas Eakins, 127 pp., 89 ill. [16 in color); Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow
George_Braziller
American painter
on linen that drew comparisons to the paintings of Sam Francis and Fairfield Porter. At this time, Guidi was making representational paintings of landscapes
Jennifer_Guidi
American painter
single coloristic unity." Reviewing his later work, artist-critic Fairfield Porter described him as one of the few abstract artists "who uses brilliant
Angelo_Ippolito
American photographer (1944–1998)
Gallery, with Milton Avery, Duncan Hannah, Tobi Kahn, Malcolm Morley, Fairfield Porter, David True, Helen Miranda Wilson and others. December 1996, Bruce
Bruce_Cratsley
American painter
of former League students that included Dean Fausett, Horace Day, Fairfield Porter, and Elizabeth Nottingham and later that year showed again in the annual
Felicia_Meyer
American painter (1942–2010)
M.F.A. from The University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, Jane Freilicher, John Button and Rudy Burckhardt. He
Bill_Sullivan_(artist)
Curator, critic, and consultant
(November 2015): 296-297. "Looking at Art. Strange Bedfellows: from Fairfield Porter to David Park to Lisa Yuskavage and Peter Doig, Contemporary artists
Norman_Kleeblatt
New York-based figurative painter
Gallery. Additional painters whose works he studies are Vuillard, Fairfield Porter, Edwin Dickinson and Filippo DePisis. During summers spent in Maine
Ray_Ciarrocchi
American poet (born 1948)
books by A. R. Ammons, Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, Alfred Leslie, Fairfield Porter, Karl Shapiro, and Mark Van Doren. In 1994 Lehman succeeded Donald
David_Lehman
Welsh painter (1911–2009)
international artist friends including Zoran Mušič, Olivier Debré, and Fairfield Porter. He was proactive in bringing art into south Wales communities. In
Arthur_Giardelli
American social realist painter
Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH “Childe Hassam, Robert Gwathmey, Fairfield Porter, Ben Shahn, and Jules Pascin,” ACA Galleries, New York City 1998 “In
Robert_Gwathmey
1951 art show in New York City, USA; debut of the abstract expressionist art movement
(1915–1991) Costantino Nivola (1911–1988) Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) Fairfield Porter (1907–1975) Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) Melville Price (1920–1970)
9th_Street_Art_Exhibition
French-American painter
Design in New York. His New York students, Reginald Marsh, John Koch, Fairfield Porter and Frank Mason adopted his Old Master painting techniques, and taught
Jacques_Maroger
Petts – Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, West Window Fairfield Porter – Elizabeth James Rosenquist – F-111 Andy Warhol – Empire (film, released)
1965_in_art
American painter
Malcolm Morley, Robert Morris, Catherine Murphy, Dennis Oppenheim, Fairfield Porter, Sam Richardson, Edward Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Alan Sonfist, Larry
Jack_Boynton
American painter (1924–2015)
(sometimes referred to as the New York School). Among the artists were Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, and Jane Freilicher, and among the poets were James
Jane_Wilson
Gallery. It was favorably reviewed by Hilton Kramer, Emily Genauer, Fairfield Porter, and others. "...inscrutable, dark, mostly in blacks stained here and
Seymour_Boardman
American literary magazine
Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, and Fairfield Porter. Work from the magazine has appeared in the annual The Best American
New_American_Writing
2003) George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor (d. 2002) June 10 – Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975) June 14 – Nicolas Bentley, English author
1907_in_art
Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Childe Hassam, Franz Kline, Robert Dash, Fairfield Porter, Thomas Moran, and Robert Motherwell. In recent years, art by area
Guild_Hall_of_East_Hampton
Bridgehampton, New York, he was introduced to artists Williem de Kooning, Fairfield Porter and Jane Freilicher. Perlis's work has been the subject solo exhibitions
Don_Perlis
Artist and sculptor (1917–2006)
but also from such critics as Dore Ashton and Fairfield Porter, and author James A. Michener. Porter wrote, "...Richenburg's painting...seems to be specifically
Robert_Richenburg
American art movement
(1918–1989); Balcomb Greene (1904–1990); Robert De Niro, Sr. (1920–1993); Fairfield Porter (1907–1975); Gregorio Prestopino (1907–1984); Lester Johnson, (1919–2010);
American Figurative Expressionism
American_Figurative_Expressionism
American painter (born 1966)
influences include Goya, Florine Stettheimer, Cézanne, van Gogh and Fairfield Porter. Miller’s work is in the collections of the American University Museum
Tracy_Miller
American painter (1889–1954)
Personal Vision, The New York Times, April 10, 1955 Section 2, p. 11 Fairfield Porter, "Reviews and Previews," Art News, vol. 56, Dec. 1957, p. 11 - Anne
Anne_Ryan_(artist)
Limited edition abstract arts magazine
Feldman, John Ferren, Aristodimos Kaldis, Piet Mondrian, E.A. Navaretta, Fairfield Porter and statements, cahier and art by George Cavallon, Jack Tworkov, Peter
It is. A Magazine for Abstract Art
It_is._A_Magazine_for_Abstract_Art
American artist from New York City, who helped to develop the Integral Yoga movement
“Spanier’s New Space Sparkles,” Woodstock Times (October 20, 1994). Fairfield Porter. “Sam Spanier Shows Wax Paintings on Paper at Wittenborn Gallery,”
Sam_Spanier
Art gallery in New York City
Wilson, Red Grooms, Larry Rivers, Nell Blaine, Jane Freilicher, and Fairfield Porter, among others. The gallery became a salon for artists and poets and
Tibor_de_Nagy_Gallery
of Amherst College, and his wife Sophia Porter (1785–1868), daughter of Noah Porter. He was born in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 1841, he married his first
Edward_Porter_Humphrey
American poet and historian (1905–1981)
Kansas Poems of Kenneth Wiggins Porter, Washburn University "Fairfield Porter with poet Kenneth Koch, ca. 1962" Dr. Kenneth Wiggins Porter at Find a Grave
Kenneth_Porter_(poet)
American visual artist
included, Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, Lowell Nesbitt, Claes Oldenburg, Fairfield Porter, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s
Rosemary_Hornak
British-born realist painter and author
In Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935–1975, a collection of Fairfield Porter's writing. Downes' own writing has been published in two small paperbacks:
Rackstraw_Downes
Township in Essex County, New Jersey, US
Fairfield is a township in far northwestern Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population
Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey
Fairfield_Township,_Essex_County,_New_Jersey
Neighbourhood in British Columbia, Canada
Parks in the Fairfield neighbourhood include: Beacon Hill Clover Point Ross Bay Cemetery Moss Rock (Fairfield Hill) Park Robert Porter Park Brooke Street
Fairfield,_Greater_Victoria
American former actor (born 1947)
of Dayton King on the ABC television series No Ordinary Family and Gene Porter in the NBC television series Revolution, father of Elizabeth Mitchell's
Stephen_Collins
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1950
Liverpool Fairfield was a borough constituency in Liverpool which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of
Liverpool_Fairfield
Fairbanks Renville 37 35.720 0.267 48.770854 -101.944925 3807525140 01759605 Fairfield Grand Forks 117 35.506 0.028 47.802659 -97.300658 3803525260 01036595
List of townships in North Dakota
List_of_townships_in_North_Dakota
American actress
Italian, Irish, English, Spanish and Portuguese descent. She graduated from Fairfield Senior High School in 1999 and went on to study communications at Ohio
Floriana_Lima
British author and journalist (1892–1983)
Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary
Rebecca_West
Labor Times Fairfield and Ivanhoe News and Alphington Advertiser Heidelberg No defunct 1909–1924 Later known as the Ivanhoe and Fairfield News and Alphington
List of newspapers in Victoria
List_of_newspapers_in_Victoria
George Porter (29 July 1884 – 25 September 1973) was a British Labour Party politician. He was the first Labour candidate to contest Liverpool Fairfield and
George Porter (British politician)
George_Porter_(British_politician)
1972, p. 329. Fairfield 1983, p. 229. Bebbington 1972, p. 47. Fairfield 1983, p. 31. Fairfield 1983, p. 34. Bebbington 1972, p. 55. Fairfield 1983, p. 40
Street_names_of_Marylebone
United States historic place
The Louden Whirl-Around is a historic object located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States. It is a type of a playground merry-go-round manufactured by the
Louden_Whirl-Around
December 2010 Elected hereditary peer Junior Minister The Lord Fyfe of Fairfield Labour 16 May 2000 1 February 2011 Life peer The Lord Monson Crossbencher
List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present)
List_of_former_members_of_the_House_of_Lords_(2000–present)
Building in Greater Manchester, England
Fairfield Moravian Church and its surrounding settlement was founded in 1785 in Fairfield, a suburb near Droylsden, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester)
Fairfield_Moravian_Church
near Barmoor Clough, near the town of Chapel-en-le-Frith aforesaid, to Fairfield near Buxton aforesaid. (Repealed by Road from Hurdlow House to Manchester
List of acts of the 1st session of the 1st Parliament of the United Kingdom
List_of_acts_of_the_1st_session_of_the_1st_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
British actress (born 1989)
appearances in multiple independent films, including Titus (2013) and Fairfield (2014). She has also appeared in episodes of Blue Bloods, Unforgettable
Jasmine_Cephas_Jones
FAIRFIELD PORTER
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a variant of Harefield, a habitational name from a place so named, for example the one Greater London or Harefield in Selling, Kent, which are both apparently named from Old English here ‘army’ + feld ‘open country’.
Surname or Lastname
Dutch
Dutch : occupational name for a ropemaker (see Roper).English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a porter or a basket maker, from Middle English (h)rip ‘basket’. Compare Ripper.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name, probably from Bardfield in Essex, which is named with an unattested Old English byrde ‘(river) bank’, ‘border’ + feld ‘open land’. The name is still most common in northern Essex.English : topographic name for someone who lived in an area where barley was cultivated, from Middle English berefeld.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places, such as Merryfield in Devon and Cornwall or Mirfield in West Yorkshire, all named with the Old English elements myrige ‘pleasant’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ (see Field).
Boy/Male
Anglo, British, English
From the Field by the Weir
Boy/Male
African, American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English, Jamaican
Battlefield; Spear Field; Triangular Field
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, PORTER means "doorkeeper."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Aldrich or Aldridge. A few bearers of the name are recorded in southern England in the 17th–19th centuries, but the name appears to have died out in Britain.Isaac Arledge died in Fairfield co., SC, in 1790. He was a slave owner; many present-day bearers are African Americans.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Fifield or Fyfield, of which there are instances in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire, all so named from Old English fīf ‘five’ + hīd ‘hide’. (A hide was a measurement of land area.)
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Barfield.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Berkshire called Warfield, from Old English wær ‘weir’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.Richard Warfield came from Berkshire, England, to MD in 1662.
Surname or Lastname
English (Dorset)
English (Dorset) : probably a habitational name from either of the places mentioned at Hairfield, or from Harvel near Rochester, Kent, named with Old English heorot ‘hart’, ‘stag’ + feld ‘open country’.
Boy/Male
English American
From the triangular field. From an Old English surname and place name, meaning 'field of spears'.
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a cobbler, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cobblers’ lasts (see Laster).German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a porter, from Middle High German last; German Last or Yiddish last ‘burden’, ‘load’.Dutch : metonymic occupational name as in 2, from Middle Dutch last ‘load’, ‘burden’; or a nickname for an awkward character, from Dutch last ‘trouble’, ‘nuisance’.French : habitational name from a place so named in Puy-de-Dôme.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly an occupational name for a porter or carrier, from an agent derivative of Middle English hailen ‘to haul’, ‘to drag’, from Old French haler ‘to pull’.Slovenian : variant spelling of German Haller.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example Fairfield in Derbyshire or Kent, both named from Old English as fæger ‘beautiful’ + feld ‘open country’, or Fairfield in Worcestershire, which is named with Old English fŠ‘hog’ + feld.John Fairfield was an immigrant to Charlestown, MA, in 1635.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Yorkshire)
English (mainly Yorkshire) : habitational name, perhaps from Dransfield Hill in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, which contains the Old English genitive of drÄn ‘drone’ + feld ‘open country’. DrÄn may be a byname in this instance.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English porter ‘doorkeeper’, ‘gatekeeper’ (Old French portier). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. As an American surname, this has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other European languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner) and North German Poertner.English : occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Old French porteo(u)r (Late Latin portator, from portare ‘to carry or convey’).Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch portere ‘doorkeeper’. Compare 1.Dutch : status name for a freeman (burgher) of a seaport, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : adoption of the English or Dutch name in place of some Ashkenazic name of similar sound or meaning.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, generally from a field name denoting a triangular area, Old English gÄra (see Gore) at the corner of an open field after rectangular furlongs had been laid out.Jewish : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.U.S. President James Abram Garfield (1831–81) was preceded by at least six Garfields born in America, his immigrant ancestor having come to Massachusetts Bay with John Winthrop in 1630.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly a variant of Chark, a metonymic occupational name for a porter or carrier, from Old French charche ‘load’.
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n.
Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.
n.
The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.
n.
A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.
n.
A female porter.
n.
A house where porter is sold.
n.
An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
v. t.
To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.
n.
A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.
n.
See Portress.
n.
A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
n.
One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
n.
The price of carriage; porterage.
n.
A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.
n.
A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.
n.
One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
n.
A strong malt liquor; strong porter.
n.
A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger.
n.
A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.
n.
One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.