page_title: William Blake Richmond
section_title: Stained glass design
hierarchical_section_title: William Blake Richmond / Artistic career / Stained glass design
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of stained glass window, titled Charity, 1905-1910 by Sir William Blake RIchmond. At Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London
context_page_description: Sir William Blake Richmond KCB, RA, PPRBSA was an English portrait painter, sculptor and a designer of stained glass and mosaic. He is best known for his portrait work and decorative mosaics in St Paul's Cathedral in London.
  Richmond was influential in the early stages of the Arts and Crafts Movement in his selection of bold colours and materials for the mosaics in St. Paul's Cathedral and in his collaboration with James Powell and Sons, glass makers, in creating new colours and materials. This new material expanded the glassmaker's palette and was favored by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, primarily in the creation of stained glass windows and decorative art work. Richmond was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford from 1878 to 1883, succeeding his friend and mentor John Ruskin.
context_section_description: Richmond collaborated with Harry James Powell of James Powell and Sons, glassmakers,  in developing new colours for the mosaic glass to be installed in St. Paul's Cathedral. The new colours and combinations of those colours began to be offered in the standard Powell glass palette from the early 1890s. The expanded glass selection inspired artists in the early stages of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The new, heavier glass, often with light streaks of colour was used by artists in newly commissioned stained glass windows and decorative work.
  The influence of the mosaic work done at the Cathedral and the invention of new medieval-like colours by Powell, influenced Richmond in the stained glass windows that he designed for St. Mary's church in Stretton, Staffordshire.
  Richmond's five-light east chancel window at Stretton, completed in 1896, was a successful translation of his previous work into stained glass. His mosaic influenced work at Stretton is displayed in the surface of the glass, roughly painted to resemble the effects of mosaic. The three-light north and south chancel windows that he designed for St. Mary's (1898), were similar in theme to his earlier mosaic work with his choice of heavy leading in the windows and glass that gave off a sparkling appearance. The raw materials he selected for the windows included thick slabs of glass, streaked with light veins of colour. This glass that may have been used in his work at the Cathedral.
  Richmond designed three large windows (1904—1910) in the Lady Chapel of Holy Trinity Sloane Street, London.
caption: Charity, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London
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