Stained Glass of Buckinghamshire Churches

Windows by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale - Maker

leanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945) was one of the most popular artists of the Edwardian era. She became famous as an illustrator, painter and watercolour artist. Her work could be seen in exhibitions, magazines, books, churches, and private homes. Much of Eleanor's work was painted in a Pre-Raphaelite style. The Pre-Raphaelite group was founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. By the time Eleanor went to art school in 1889, Pre-Raphaelite painting was led by a second generation of artists including Edward Burne-Jones. Eleanor followed in their footsteps and helped keep the style alive until the start of the twentieth century. Eleanor was a designer as well as an artist. She produced stained-glass windows, illustrated books and small-scale sculptures as well as paintings. Her use of different media followed the Pre-Raphaelite tradition of applied art, made famous by William Morris. In all these media, she told stories, drew morals and celebrated the beauty of nature, as the original Pre-Raphaelites had in the 1850s. By the end of the 1920s, Eleanor recognised that her favoured style had run its course, and when she died in 1945 she was identified as the last Pre-Raphaelite.

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Window	Location	Church	Date	Craftsmen
	Chapel S	St Teresa (RC) in Beaconsfield, New	Unknown	Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale

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Stained Glass of Buckinghamshire Churches