PAINTING} IN GLASS.' 413 



black with water colours, and etching the draperies after the same 

 manner on glasses of the colour of the object they designed to 

 paint. For the carnation they used glass of a bright red colour ; 

 and upon this they drew the principal lineaments of the face, &c. 

 with black. At length, the taste for this sort of painting improving 

 considerably, and the art being found applicable to the adorning 

 of churches, palaces, &c. they found out means of incorporating 

 the colours in the glass itself, by beating them in a fire to a proper 

 degree, hating first laid on the colours. A French painter at Mar. 

 seilles is said to have given (he first notion of this improvement, 

 upon going to Rome under the pontificate of Julius II ; but Albert 

 Durer and Lucas of Leyden were the first that carried it to any 

 height. 



This art, however, has frequently met with much interruption, 

 and sometimes been almost totally lost ; of which Mr. Walpole 

 gives the following account in his Anecdotes of Painting in Eng. 

 land : " The first interruption given to it was by the reformation, 

 which banished the art out of churches ; yet it was in some man. 

 nor kept up in the escutcheons of the nobility and gentry in the 

 windows of their seats. Towards the end of queen Elizabeth's 

 reign, indeed, it was omitted even there ; yet the practice did not 

 entirely cease. The chapel of our Lady at Warwick was orna- 

 mented anew by Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester and his countess, 

 and the cipher of the glass. painter's name yet remains, with the 

 date 1574 ; and in some of the chapels at Oxford, the art a.aiu 

 appears, dating itself in 1622, by the hand of no contemptible 

 master, 



" I could supply even this gap of 48 years by many dates on 

 Flemish glass: but nobody ever supposed that the secret was lost 

 o early as the reign of James I. ; and that it has not perished since 

 will be evident from the following series, reaching to the present 

 hour. 



lt The portraits in the windows of the library at All Souls, Ox- 

 ford. In the chapel at Queen's College there are twelve windows 

 dated 1518. P.C. a cipher on the painted glass in the chapel at 

 Warwick, 1574. The windows at Wadhanucollege ; the drawing 

 pretty good, and the colours fine, hy Bernard Van Linge,^ I6i2. 

 In the chapel at Lincoln's Inn, a window, with the name Bernard, 

 1623. This was probably the preceding Van Linge. In th 

 church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, two windows by Baptist* 



