Rams Head Antiques

Description

This is a beautiful painting which is a design for a stained glass window dating, from the 19th Century. The painting is attributed to Heaton, Butler and Bayne who were an English firm producing stained glass windows from 1862 to 1953.

Clement Heaton (1824 - 82) founded his own stained glass firm in 1852, joined by James Butler in 1855. Between 1859 and 1861 they worked alongside Clayton and Bell and were joined by Robert Turnill Bayne (1837-1915), who became their sole designer and a full partner in the firm in 1862. The firm was known as Heaton, Butler and Bayne from 1862. Bayne's windows show strong design and colour, and are often recognisable by at least one figure with Bayne's features and long beard. They established their studio in Covent Garden, London, and went on to become one of the leading firms of Gothic Revival stained glass manufacturers whose work was commissioned by the principal Victorian architects. A change in direction came with their production of windows to the designs of Henry Holiday in 1868, which show a more classical influence. During a long career, the firm produced stained glass for numerous churches throughout Britain, the Empire and the United States.

Westminster Abbey includes a Heaton, Butler and Bayne window, installed in 1868, an early example of the work of Henry Holiday. Also the stained glass in the east window of the Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, Gillingham. Other windows by this firm are in Wimborne Minster 1857, Peterborough Cathedral 1864 and St Marys Parish Church Hampton 1888.
The painting is in mixed media and is in very good condition with great strength of colour and only a very small loss to the edge of the arch to the top left. It is attractively framed in a smart gilt frame and plain ivory mount. The frame measures 44 cms by 38 cms and the painting itself is 20 cms by 24.5 cms to the top of the arch.
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