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J. Silvester Sparrow (1862-1929)


Stained glass artist. James Silvester Sparrow was able to consolidate his own career having made important commissions for other artists, including Walter Crane and Frank Brangwyn. Often using intense and dark colours, he referred to himself as the 'Wagner of stained glass'.


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Signatures and maker's marks
  Sparrows    from    Christ with Angels Gathering the Harvest Sparrows
from Christ with Angels Gathering the Harvest

1902
Church of St Michael, Lledrod, Ceredigion
east wall of the chancel
Further reading

Peter Cormack, Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 66–9.

William Waters, Saints and Symbols: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2021), pp. 219–41 and further references.

Martin Harrison, Victorian Stained Glass (London: 1980), p. 67.





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