Nathaniel Westlake

Nathaniel Westlake

Nathaniel Hubert John Westlake (N H J Westlake) (1833-1921) was a 19th-century British artist specializing in stained glass.[1]

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Career

Westlake began to design for the firm of Lavers & Barraud, Ecclesiastical Designers, in 1858, and became a partner ten years later, making the firm Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, of which he became sole proprietor in 1880.[2] The firm was then known as Lavers & Westlake.

A leading designer of the Gothic Revival movement, his works include The Vision of Beatrice (1864), commissioned for an exhibition of stained glass held at the South Kensington Museum (renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899).[3]

In 1896, Lavers & Westlake were commissioned to reglaze two central lights in the great hall windows at Mary Datchelor Girl's School, Camberwell. The subjects were 'Lady Jane Grey discourses with Roger Ascham' and 'By Industry and Perseverance', symbolising the importance of female endeavour in higher education. Other windows included 'On the way to Chapel', 'Physical Exercise', 'The Kindergarten' and 'The Classroom'. The windows were removed from the school in 2010 after it was converted into a series of apartments.[4]

Works

Stained Glass

  • Windows, Lady Chapel, and Stations of the Cross, St. Mary's Church, Ryde.[5]
  • Windows at Arundel Cathedral.
  • Windows at All Saints, Higher Walton, Lancashire.
  • Windows at Mary Datchelor Girl's School, Camberwell, south London. [4]
  • Windows at St Lawrence's Church, Westlake (Essex) [6]
  • The Gordon Window in Booloominbah [7]
  • Windows and murals at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Hove. The final work before his death was the stained glass above the doorway on the southwest side.[8]

Paintings

  • Paintings of St. Charles Borromeo, London

Books

  • A souvenir of the exhibition of Christian art, held at Mechlin, in September, mdccclxiv, in a series of sketches, with descriptive letterpress Published 1866
  • Via Crucis, the way of the Cross in fourteen stations [plates]. Published 1876
  • A history of design in painted glass, Volume 1 Published 1881
  • Between 1891 and 1894 Westlake published four volumes entitled A History of Design in Painted Glass.
  • An elementary history of design in mural painting principally during the Christian era Published 1901
  • The dance: historic illustrations of dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D., by an antiquary. Published 1911

References

  1. ^ Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 77.
  2. ^ Gordon Campbell (ed.), Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, vol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 21.
  3. ^ Victoria and Albert Museum Featured Glass Panels: The Vision of Beatrice
  4. ^ a b Martin Harrison FSA Nathaniel Westlake and the Stained Glass of Mary Datchelor Girl's School. Published by the Clothworkers' Company, The Dorset Press, Dorchester England 2010
  5. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, Isle of Wight, edited by David W. Lloyd (Yale University Press, 2006), p. 53.
  6. ^ Christopher Wright; Catherine May Gordon; Mary Peskett Smith (2006). British and Irish paintings in public collections: an index of British and Irish oil paintings by artists born before 1870 in public and institutional collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press. pp. 864–. ISBN 978-0-300-11730-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=9XNe0mLSJQAC&pg=PA864. Retrieved 19 September 2011. 
  7. ^ "The Gordon Window in Booloominbah". University of New england. http://www.une.edu.au/about/une/gordon.php. 
  8. ^ "The Sacred Heart, Hove" (PDF). English Heritage Review of Diocesan Churches 2005. English Heritage. 2005. http://www.dabnet.org/Resources/DABNet/English%20Heritage%20Reports%20Extracts/Hove%20Sacred%20Heart%20EH.pdf. Retrieved 25 September 2011. 

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