414 PAINTING IK GLASS. 



Sutton, 1634. The windows in the chapel at University-college 

 Henry Giles pinxit 1687. At Christ church, Isaac Oliver, aged 

 84, 1700. Window in Merton-chapel, William Price, 1700. 

 Windows at Queen's New college and Maudlin, by William Price, 

 the son, now living, whose colours are flue, whose drawing is good, 

 and whose taste in ornaments and Mosaic is far superior to any 

 of his predecessors j is equal to the antique, to the good Italian 

 masters, and onl) surpassed by his own singular modesty. 



'It may not be unwelcome to the curious reader to see some 

 anecdotes o! the revival of taste for painted glass in England. Price, 

 as we have said, was the only painter in that stile for many years 

 in England. Afterwards one Rowell, a plumber at Reading, did 

 some things, particularly for the late Henry Earl of Pembroke ; 

 but Rowell's colours soon vanished. At last he found out a very 

 durable and beautiful red ; but he died in a year or two, and the 

 secret with him. A man at Birmingham began the same art in 1 756 

 or 1757, and fitted up a window for Lord Lyttlefon in the church 

 of Hagley, but soon broke. A little after him, one Peckittat York 

 began the same business, and has made good profici* nry. A few 

 lovers of that art collected some dispersed panes from ancient 

 buildings, particularly the late Lord Cobham, who erected a gothic 

 temple at Stowe, and filled it with arms of the old nobility, &c. 

 About the year 1753, one Asciotti, an Italian, who had married 

 a Flemish woman, brought a parcel of painted glass from Flanders, 

 and sold it for a few guineas to the Hon. Mr. Bateman, of Old 

 Windsor. Upon that I sent Asciotti again to Flanders, who 

 brought me 450 pieces, for which, including the expence of his 

 journey, I paid him 36 guineas. His wife made more journeys 

 for the same purpose : and sold her cargoes to one Palmer, a 

 glazier in St. Martin's lane, who immediately raised the price to 

 one, two, or five guineas for a single piece, and fitted up entire 

 windows with them, and with mosaics of plain glass of different 

 colours. In 1761, Paterson. an auctioneer at Essex-house in the 

 Strand, exhibited the two first auctions of painted glass, imported 

 in like manner from Flanders. All this manufacture consisted in 

 rounds of Scripture stories, stained in black and yellow, or in 

 small figures of black and white; birds and flowers in colours, and 

 Flemish coats of arms. 1 ' 



The colours* used in painting or staining of glass are very dif- 

 ferent from those used in painting either in water or oil colours. 



