- Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass and is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, …
- Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones was an English artist and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and largely responsible for bringing the Pre-Raphaelites into the mainstream of the British art world, while at the same time executing some of the most exquisite and beautiful artwork of the time. Burne-Jones was born in Birmingham, the son of a frame-maker at Bennetts Hill, where a blue plaque commemorates his birth.
- Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke was an Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.
- Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall is a stained glass artist. Her work has received several International First Place Awards for outstanding Liturgical art from both the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, and Ministry and Liturgy. The American Institute of Architects has awarded Sarah ‘Honor Awards’ in light of her challenging and creative installations within contemporary architecture. Ms. Hall was elected in 2002 into membership of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art.
- Dard Hunter
Dard Hunter, born William Joseph Hunter, was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking—especially by hand, using the tools and craft of four centuries prior. Hunter produced two hundred copies of his book "Old Papermaking", preparing every aspect of the book himself: he wrote the text, designed and cast the type, did the typesetting, handmade the paper, and printed and bound the book.
- Brian Clarke
Brian Clarke (born in Oldham,Lancashire, July 2, 1953) is an English artist known for his work in stained glass. He won a full time art scholarship at the age of 11 in 1964. He made his first stained glass in the early 1970s and has since completed more than 150 works and exhibited globally. He has worked on architectural projects with Foster and Partners and Future Systems, among others.
- Gabriel Loire
Gabriel Loire (1904-Dec 25, 1996) was a French stained glass artist of the twentieth century whose extensive works, portraying various persons or historical scenes, appear in many venues around the world. He founded the Loire Studio in Chartres, France which continues to produce stained glass windows. Loire was a leader in the modern use of "slab glass" which is much thicker and stronger than the stained glass technique of the Middle Ages.
- Charles Eamer Kempe
Charles Eamer Kempe (June 29 1837 - April 29 1907) was a well-known Victorian stained glass designer. He studied for the priesthood at Pembroke College, Oxford, but it became clear that his severe stammer would be an impediment to preaching. He decided that "if I was not permitted to minister in the Sanctuary I would use my talents to adorn it", and went to study architecture with the firm of George Frederick Bodley, …
- Christopher Whall
Christopher Whitworth Whall (1849-1924) was an English stained glass artist who worked from 1897 into the 20th century. He was an important member of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who became a leading designer of stained glass. His most important work is the glass for the Lady Chapel in Gloucester Cathedral. Whall was also influential as a teacher, taking stained glass classes at the Central School of Art, and later at the Royal College of Art in London, …
- William Wailes
William Wailes, was the proprietor of one of England’s largest and most prolific stained glass workshops.
- Marcelle Ferron
Marcelle Ferron, a "Québécoise" painter and stained glass artist, was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene. Jacques Ferron, a famous Quebec writer, is her elder brother, while Madeleine Ferron, another writer, is also their sister. Born in Louiseville (Mauricie), Quebec, she was an early member of Paul-Émile Borduas's "Automatistes" art movement. She signed the manifesto "Refus global", a watershed event in the Quebec cultural scene, …
- William Nicholson
Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949) was an English painter, also known for his work as an illustrator and author of children's books. He was the son of William Newzam Nicholson, an industrialist and Conservative MP of Newark, and Annie Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph Prior and Elizabeth (nee Mallam) of Woodstock, Oxon. He was a student at Hubert von Herkomer's art school.
- Douglas Strachan
Dr Douglas Strachan (1875-1950). Arguably the greatest Scottish designer of stained glass windows. The artist whose work is at * Winchelsea Church, East Sussex * St Machar's Cathedral; * King's College Chapel, Aberdeen; * the Palace of Peace at The Hague; * the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle; * Noble College, Aberdeen * St Salvador's Chapel * West Hoathly church, amongst other places.
- Guido Nincheri
Guido Nincheri was a Canadian artist working mainly in stained glass and fresco. Born in Prato, Italy, he studied art in Florence and immigrated to Montreal in 1915 after a short stay in Boston where he decorated the Opera House. Nincheri designed the interior decoration of many Catholic churches across Canada and New England, including Saint-Viateur d'Outremont, St.-Léon-de-Westmount (a Canadian Cultural Heritage Site). He not only executed frescos and stained glass, …
- Cappy Thompson
Cappy Thompson is an American artist who works in the medium of glass. The basis of her reverse glass painting technique is "Grisaille", which has been used on stained glass since the Middle Ages. She lives and works in Olympia, Washington. She has been an artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School. One of her best-known works is "Spirit Animals", a public installation at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
- Thomas Willement
Thomas Willement, 1786-1871, British stained glass artist, called “the Father of Victorian Stained Glass”, active from 1811 to 1865.
- John Henry Dearle
John Henry Dearle or J. H. Dearle (1860-1932) was a British textile and stained glass designer trained by Pre-Raphaelite artist and craftsman William Morris. Dearle designed many of the later wallpapers and textiles released by Morris & Co., and contributed background and foliage patterns to tapestry designs featuring figures by Edward Burne-Jones and others. Beginning in his teens as a shop assistant and then design apprentice, …
- Patrick Pye
Patrick Pye, sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, was born in Winchester, England in 1929. Major commissions can be seen all over Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána. Lives in the hills outside Dublin, Ireland.
- John Radecki
John Radecki (also known as Jan Radecki) (1865 - 1955) was a master stained glass artist working in Australia, considered to be the finest such artist of his time.
- Józef Mehoffer
Józef Mehoffer was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time. Mehoffer studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as well as in Paris at the Académie Colarossi among others. There Mehoffer began painting portraits often of people of historical significance.
- Urs Graf
Urs Graf (born 1485 in Solothurn, Switzerland; died after 1529) was a Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker (of woodcuts, etchings and engravings). He only produced two etchings, one of which dates from 1513 - the earliest known etching for which a date has been established. However, his woodcuts are considered of greater significance, particularly as he is attributed with the invention of the white-line woodcut technique, …
- Afewerk Tekle
Afewerk Tekle (born 22 October, 1932) is one of Ethiopia's most celebrated artists, particularly known for his paintings on African and Christian themes as well as his stained glass. Born in Ankober to Feleketch Yamatawork and Tekle Mano, Afewerk grew up under the Italian occupation during the Second World War. Following the war, in 1947, Afewerk decided that he wanted to help rebuild Ethiopia and elected to travel to England to study mining engineering.
- Marion Mahony Griffin
Marion Lucy Mahony Griffin (born February 14 1871 in Chicago, died August 10 1961 in Chicago) was an American artist and one of the first licenced female architects in the world. Mahony graduated from MIT in 1894 and went to work the next year in the Chicago studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, designing furniture, stained glass windows and decorative panels. She would stay in Wright's studio for almost fifteen years and was an important contributor to his reputation, …
- G. Owen Bonawit
G. Owen Bonawit is an artist whose studio created thousands of pieces of stained glass in the early 1900s at Yale, Duke, and Northwestern universities, Connecticut College, and in residential locations. His works are very prolific at Yale University. There are, by one count, 887 pieces in its Sterling Memorial Library.
- Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was an English artist, born in London in 1872. She studied at the Royal Academy and worked at first mostly in illustration, moving to paintings influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite artists. Later, she also worked with stained glass. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to churches. Amongst her best known works are "The Uninvited Guest" and "Guinevere". She died in 1945.
- Charles Crodel
Charles Crodel was a German painter and stained glass artist who also taught at Penn State University and the University of Louisville. Born in Marseille, he studied arts at the University of Jena, while he became painter and lithographer. He was member of the executive board of the Jena art-union, the famous forum of the Bauhaus, and became a close friend of Gerhard Marcks.
- Alexander Gibbs
Alexander Gibbs was the name of a British firm of several generations of the Gibbs family, who commenced business in 1813 and in 1848 began producing stained glass windows.
- Louis Anquetin
Louis Anquetin was a French painter. Anquetin was born in Etrepagny, France. In 1882, he came to Paris and began studying art at Léon Bonnat's studio, where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The two artists later moved to the studio of Fernand Cormon, where they befriended Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh. Around 1887, Anquetin and Bernard developed a painting style that used flat regions of color and thick, black contour outlines.
- Emanuel Vigeland
Emanuel Vigeland (1875 - 1948) was a multitalented Norwegian artist. Mostly known for his paintings, he also produced frescos, stained glass and sculptures, many of which were commanded by churches in different parts of Norway. He made of his mausoleum his magnus opus. The mausoleum, which doubles as a modest museum to Emanuel Vigeland's art, is located in Oslo, Norway. It is shaped like a small windowless church, …
- Jean René Bazaine
Jean René Bazaine was a French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer.
- Charles Webster Hawthorne
Charles Webster Hawthorne was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899. He was born in Maine, started as an office-boy in a stained-glass factory in New York, studied at night school and with Henry Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase, and abroad in both Holland and Italy.
- Marie-Alain Couturier
Père Marie-Alain Couturier, known as Father Couturier was a Dominican friar, designer of stained glass windows, famous for his modern inspiration of Sacred art.
- William Warrington
William Warrington, (1796-1869), was an English maker of stained glass windows. His firm operated from 1832 to 1875.
- Theophilus Presbyter
Theophilus Presbyter was a Benedictine monk and author of a Latin text containing detailed descriptions of various medieval applied arts. The collection of his writings is designated "Schedula diversarum artium" ("List of various arts") or "De diversibus artibus" ("On various arts") and was written between 1100 and 1120. The oldest handwritten copies of the work are found in Vienna (Austrian National Library, …
- Veronica Whall
Veronica Whall Veronica Whall was daughter of Christopher Whall, a leader of the Arts & Crafts Movement in stained glass. At the age of 13 Veronica had drawn part of a window for Gloucester Cathedral. She went on to become a successful stained glass artist and a director of Whall & Whall Ltd in London. Most of her work outside the United Kingdom are to be found in New Zealand.
- Frank O. Salisbury
Francis ("Frank") Owen Salisbury was a Methodist artist from Harpenden in Hertfordshire who specialised in portraits, large canvases of historical and ceremonial events, stained glass and book illustration. In his heyday he made a fortune on both sides of the Atlantic and was known as “Britain’s Painter Laureate”. His art was steadfastly conservative and he was a vitriolic critic of Modern Art – particularly of his contemporaries Picasso, Chagall and Mondrian.
- Guglielmo da Marsiglia
Guglielmo da Marsiglia (1475 - 1537) is an Italian painter of stained glass of the 16th century. He is also known as Guglielmo da Marcillat, and was a native of Dt. Michiel near Meuse, france. He created 3 windows in 1519 for the Cathedral of Arezzo (180 ducats). He completed two windows in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo containing 12 composition from the lives of Christ and virgin (1509). Also painted in Fresco.
- Emile Bellet
Emile Bellet is an artist born in France in 1941. He began painting at the age of 15. He taught himself his very own unique technique and continued to paint on. He was found by Galerie Guigne in 1976, and from there his career exploded. Two years later, he was painting anything from standard lithographs to stained glass church windows. He has numerous exhibits in locations like France, Switzerland, and Japan.
- Bart van der Leck
Bart van der Leck was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramacist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl art movement. Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht. An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands. After having met Mondriaan and van Doesburg and having founded the Stijl movement with them, …
- Simon de Vlieger
Simon de Vlieger (c. 1601m, Rotterdam - buried Mar 13 1653, Weesp) was a Dutch designer, draughtsman, and painter, most famous for his marine paintings. Born in Rotterdam, de Vlieger moved in 1634 to Delft, where he joined the Guild of Saint Luke, and then to Amsterdam in 1638, though he maintained a house in Rotterdam until 1650 when he moved to Weesp. In the 1630s and 1640s he was one of the best-known Dutch maritime painters.