IN GLASS STAINING AND PAINTING.
Stephen du Mont, Paris , and was removed to the church by Le Vieil. This window was a singularallegory, and shews the principal sovereigns and noted persons of that epoch occupying themselvesin collecting from the tomb the blood which is abundantly flowing from the wounds of our Saviour.This artist painted also the windows of St. Gervais , and of many other churches in the same city.
Pinaigrier, Nicholas. The finest windows in the charnel-house of St. Paul were from thehands of this artist. Robert, John, and Louis Pinaigrier contributed also to the execution of thewindows of that edifice. Le Vieil considers these artists as the sons or grandsons of the last-named,who was rival to J. Cousin.
Pointe, Arnould de la, master-glazier of the church of St. Ouen, at Rouen , in 1508, in con-junction with Geoffry Masson.
Pot, John Le, a Fleming, established himself at Beauvais, in 1500, and married the daughterof Anthony Caron, painter, of that town. He excelled in the graiselle, and was besides a cleversculptor : he died in 1563.
Pot, Nicholas Le, relative of Angrand Le Prince ; he was from Beauvais, and painted manysubjects in glass for that town, but, like John Pot, he excelled principally in graiselles. His worksbear his monogram, NLP, united; he was probably son of the last-named.
Prince, Angrand Le, principally known from his admirable windows in the church of St.Stephen, at Beauvais. These windows have excited much notice from various authors : they indeedpossess a merited notoriety, and are truly excellent. Many of the subjects are from the drawings ofRaphael , of Giulio Romano , and Albert Durer ; also a Christ in the cathedral from the last-namedmaster. This eminent painter prided himself in obtaining models from the greatest artists in Italy and Germany , and at a late period there still existed at Beauvais some of the valuable drawings thathe had possessed. He died at Beauvais in 1530, at an advanced age.
Repel, Soyer, master-glazier to the church of St. Maclou, Rouen , in 1565. He had throughhis hands all the windows round the choir of this edifice, and also those of the Lady Chapel, to repair.
Reve, Thomas, glass-painter of St. Sepulchre’s, London , executed some of the windows ofKing’s College Chapel , Cambridge : he lived in 1527 (see G. Hoone).
Rogiers, a native of Holland: he painted the windows of the chapel of the Holy Sacrament,St. Gudule, Brussels . These windows were ordered by Francis the First, Charles the Fifth, andmany other sovereigns.
Rue, Liom de la, and his son (see Buselin).
Symonds, Symond, of St. Margaret’s, Westminster {see Francis Willyamson, SixteenthCentury).
Tacheron, Peter, born at the end of the sixteenth century, was master-glazier at Soissons ,and painted in that town, in 1622, the ten admirable windows of the Hall of the Arquebusiers.These represent subjects from the Metamorphosis of Ovid , and are perfect in drawing and colouring.Louis the Fourteenth, in passing through Soissons to Flanders, in 1663, was so struck with theirbeauty, that he requested four of them to place in his cabinet. The Company offered him the whole.He postponed his decision until his return, at which time he had fortunately forgotten all about it.
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