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The Price family of glass-painters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
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The work of the Price family, William known as ‘the elder’, Joshua, and William the younger, is of considerable interest in the history of glass-painting in England, not merely because they lived during a period in which, for lack of patronage, glass-painters were few, but from the degree of accomplishment, both artistic and technical, shown in their work.
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page 184 note 1 There appear to have been about four master glass-painters at that period and the same number of journeymen. The former included Henry Bray, who in 1700 succeeded William Price the elder as Master of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers; Richard Sutton, who in 1683 was doing a window for Oxford (Walpole Soc, vol. x, p. 65), and Mr. Hall (or Halsey), a glass-painter in Fetter Lane, who painted the Royal Arms (William of Orange) for the west window of Lincolns Inn Chapel. As regards journeymen, Francis Place the engraver, writing to Henry Gyles the glass-painter of York in 1683, stated: ‘I made Inquiry at Mr. Price's about glass-painters he tells me there is 4 In Towne but not worke enough to Imploy one, if he did nothing Else’ (ibid.).
page 184 note 2 Henry Gyles, the York glass-painter (1645–1709), a contemporary of Wm. Price the elder, employed no ‘flashed’ or ‘pot-metal’ coloured glasses in his windows.
page 184 note 3 Knowles, J. A., ‘The Transition from the Mosaic to the Enamel System of painting on Glass’, Antiq. Journ., vol. vi, no. I (1926), pp. 26–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
page 184 note 4 , Evelyn'sMemoirs, vol. iii, p. 65, 8vo, edGoogle Scholar.
page 185 note 1 London Gazette, 14th June 1705Google Scholar.
page 185 note 2 Burney Collection 124 (a), vol. iii, 1700Google Scholar.
page 185 note 3 Ashdown, , Hist, of Worshipful Company of Glaziers, p. 125Google Scholar.
page 185 note 4 Ibid., p. 58.
page 185 note 5 They did not rebuild their hall, probably through lack of funds, after the fire of 1666.
page 185 note 6 ‘Francis Place, Engraver and Draughtsman’, by Hake, Henry M., Walpole Soc, vol. x, p. 65Google Scholar.
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page 185 note 8 Stowe MS. 746, f. 70, printed in Walpole Soc., vol. x (1922), p. 64Google Scholar.
page 186 note 1 Richard Sutton evidently son of Baptista Sutton who executed the east window of St. Leonard Shoreditch in 1634, and most probably the east window ofthe chapel ofPeterhouse College Chapel, Cambridge, erected in 1632, as these two are very similar in style and workmanship. A Lewys Sutton, who was probably his grandfather, was Upper Warden of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers in 1525. (Ashdown, , Hist. Worshipful Company of Glaziers, p. 57Google Scholar.)
page 186 note 2 loc.cit.
page 186 note 3 Pointer's Oxon. Acad. MS. Bod. Lib.
page 186 note 4 Wood's, Colleges and Halls, ed. by Gutch, (1786), p. 18Google Scholar.
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page 186 note 6 ‘Window in Merton Chapel, William Price (he died in 1722) 1700. Windows at Queen's New College, and Maudlin, by William Price the son, now living.’ Widipole's, Anecdotes, Bohn's, ed., 1872, p. 120 (first edition 1761)Google Scholar. The above statement is not altogether correct. The window at Queen's is by Joshua Price and not William the younger.
page 187 note 1 ‘Progress etc., of Stained Glass in England.’
page 187 note 2 Printed in Walpole Soc, vol. ii, p. 47Google Scholar.
page 187 note 3 1659–1734. The hall of Burlington House and some of the ceilings were painted by him. He also painted the altar-piece of the chapel of Chelsea College.
page 188 note 1 ‘An Abbey Tragedy. Fortunes of the North Rose Window’, by the Rev. Perkins, Jocelyn, The Times, 18th Sept. 1935Google Scholar.
page 188 note 2 Ibid.
page 188 note 3 Correspondence between the Warden of New College, Oxford, and the Dean of Exeter, printed in Woodforde, , The Stained Glass of New College, Oxford, pp. 22–36Google Scholar.
page 188 note 4 Ibid.
page 189 note 1 Hints on Glass Painting, 1867, p. 237Google Scholar.
page 189 note 2 Lloyd's Evening Post, vol. xvii, no. 1251, 15th-17th July 1765Google Scholar.
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page 189 note 4 Ibid., p. 120 note.
page 189 note 5 Observation on English Architecture, p. 282.
page 190 note 1 William Peckitt, born 1731, first work executed in 1753, died 1795.
page 190 note 2 His mother must have been about eighty years of age at the time.
page 190 note 3 Dallaway, , Observations on English Architecture, p. 287Google Scholar, also states that Pearson is ‘said to have studied under the younger Price’.
page 190 note 4 Daily Advertiser, 16th Nov. 1775Google Scholar.
page 190 note 5 Arch. Journ., vol. ix, p. 29Google Scholar.
page 190 note 6 p. 199 note.
page 191 note 1 This statement is very doubtful. Some years ago the writer, through the courtesy of the late Prof, Lethaby, the Custodian of the Abbey, had the win- dows of the chapel measured. They appear to be far too small to accommodate the St. Margaret's window even before it was enlarged tofillthe present opening.
page 191 note 2 This term is generally taken to mean placing the light side of a head up against the dark side of the background and vice versa, so as to increase the effect of projection. Such a procedure is inadmissible in a glass-painting where the light is supposed to come from all directions.
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