Who is the most famous stained glass artist
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Jane Gray (stained glass artist)
British stained-glass artist (1931–2024)
Jane Gray (1931 – 1 December 2024[1]) was a British stained-glass artist. She trained at the Kingston School of Arts from 1949 to 1951, where she specialised in weaving and stained glass, and then studied at the Royal College of Art until 1955. She worked as an assistant to Lawrence Lee during this time on the nave windows of Coventry Cathedral.[2]
She has worked on more than a hundred windows in at least 40 churches, including St Peter, Martindale (1974), Shrewsbury Abbey, St Oswald, Oswestry, and St Mary, Chirk. She suffered a stroke in 1996,[2] but was able to continue working, two windows at St Nicholas, Blakeney, from 2000 being late examples of her windows.[3] Since 1992 she lived near Shrawardine, where she had a workshop, in Shropshire.[2]
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Biography
John La Farge (1835-1910) was born in New York City to a family of French émigrés who had become very successful in America. La Farge was educated in Jesuit schools, including Fordham and Mount Saint Mary’s College in Maryland. He studied law, and received a Master’s degree in 1855. The legal profession did not appeal to him, however, and for a twenty-first birthday present, he began his art training with a year in Europe, where he entered the atelier of Thomas Couture. In 1858 he moved to Newport, Rhode Island to study with William Morris Hunt. There he met Henry James and his brother William, who were also studying with Hunt.
In the 1860s, he began a number of religious paintings that were important to his development, though not commercially successful. In 1877, he was asked to provide the decorative scheme of murals and wall colors for Trinity Church in Boston, which was an early marker for the emerging American Renaissance.
John La Farge reinvented the art of stained glass. In the mid-1870s, he began to experiment with stained glass, inn
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