Masters of Decorative Glass
The people whose imagination, skill and invention shaped decorative glass: painters of windows, cutters and engravers, designers, makers and the inventors who changed what glass could do. A growing collection, researched from reliable sources, with every image properly licensed and every uncertain claim marked as uncertain.
Christopher Whall: Arts and Crafts Stained Glass
1849 to 1924 · England · Stained and painted glassThe painter who argued that a window should be designed by someone who understood glass, and taught a generation to do it.
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See the techniques these makers used in the glass type guides, look at surviving work in the photo gallery, check unfamiliar words in the glossary, or meet the craftspeople working today in Inside the Studio. The earlier profiles of famous artists remain in Artists and Studios.
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Each profile is the result of extensive historical research across several independent sources, including published histories, museum and heritage-body records and the surviving works themselves. Names, dates and attributions are checked against more than one source before they are stated, and where sources disagree, or a question remains open, the profile says so plainly. Images are used only where the licence allows, and each profile lists its image credits.