Stained glass designer. Carl Almquist was born in Sweden and came to London in 1870. He worked as an assistant to Henry Holiday early in his career for four years. He was appointed as chief designer for Shrigley & Hunt, Lancaster, in 1876, and moved back to London from Lancaster when the firm opened its London office and showroom in 1878. After more than forty years working for the firm, Almquist retired to Hove in 1920 and died there in 1924.
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| Crucifixion with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt designer: Carl Almquist 1886 Church of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigion east wall of the chancel | |
| St David and St Tudful firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt designer: Henry Wilson cartoonist: Carl Almquist donor: William Thomas Lewis 1887 Church of St David, Merthyr Tydfil south wall of the south aisle (Lady Chapel) | |
| Angels Holding the Beatitudes firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt designer: Carl Almquist 1887 Church of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigion nave | |
| St Michael firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt designer: Carl Almquist about 1887 Church of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigion west end of the nave | |
| Two Angels firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt artist: Carl Almquist 1887 Church of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigion porch |
Birgitta Rengmyr Lövgren, 'Carl Almquist (1848–1924), His Life and Work' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xxi (1997), 11–40.
William Waters, Damozels and Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870–1898 (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2017), pp. 284–5, 292–311 and further references.
William Waters, Stained Glass from Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster and London (Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies University of Lancaster, 2003).
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