A Victorian leaded hand painted stained glass armorial panel

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a fine hand painted and leaded stained glass panel depicting a coat of arms and crest of Charles Eamer Kempe, dated 1895

Dimensions: 440mm x 360mm / 17 1/2" x 14"

Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was an influential and important Victorian stained glass designer and manufacturer. His studios in London produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for altars and altar frontals, furniture and furnishings, lichgates and memorials that helped to define a later nineteenth century Anglican style. Kempe came from the same artistic circle as William Morris and the stained glass designers Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Like them, he was inspired by the art and skills of the medieval stained-glass makers but did not believe in slavishly copying their designs. The list of English cathedrals containing examples of his work includes: Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Wells, Winchester, York. The firm's trademark was a golden garb or wheatsheaf, taken from Kempe's own coat of arms and visible in his crest. From the 1870's Kempe renovated and redecorated an Elizabethan manor house called Old Place near the village of Lindfield in Sussex.

Made by Kempe & Co. and depicting Charles Kempe's personal coat of arms and crest, this unique panel may originally have decorated Old Place.

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