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William Aikman (1868–1959)


Stained glass artist. William Aikman was born in Edinburgh and was an apprentice with Ballantine and Son. He moved to London in 1892 and designed windows for James Powell & Sons, working on commissions with William Richmond and J.W. Brown. Aikman left Powell's to set up his own studio in 1913. He taught at Camberwell School of Art after the First World War. William Aikman was a founder member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters in 1921, serving on its council. Windows by other artists were also made at his studio.


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Signatures and maker's marks
  Signature    from    The Risen Christ with the Symbols of the Four Evangelists Signature
from The Risen Christ with the Symbols of the Four Evangelists

1939
Church of St Grwst, Llanrwst, Conwy
north wall of north aisle
Further reading

Peter Cormack, Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 71–2.

Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 2.

Alan Brooks and Peter Cormack, 'The Artists of the Glass House' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xli (2017), 15.

Barrie Armstrong and Wendy Armstrong, The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England: A Handbook (Wetherby: Oblong, 2005), p. 210.

Arthur E. Buss, 'William Aikman' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 1 (1959-60), 364-5.





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