English painter and musician who studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London. He worked as an assistant to Henry Holiday and helped him with cartoons for the stained glass manufacturer James Powell & Sons. While enjoying a successful career as a painter, he continued to design stained glass for Powells and also designed furniture. He was also an expert in early music.
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The Ascension with the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Resurrection firm/studio: James Powell & Sons designer: Harry Ellis Wooldridge 1869 Church of St Mary, Derwen, Denbighshire south wall of the chancel | |
St Michael firm/studio: James Powell & Sons designer: Harry Ellis Wooldridge 1876 Priory Church of St Michael, Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan east wall of the presbytery |
William Waters, Angels & Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850–1870 (Abbots Morton: Serapim Press, 2012), pp. 257–8 and further references.
William Waters, Damozels and Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870–1898 (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2017), pp. 256–81 and further references.
Robert Bridges and Anne Pimlott Baker, 'Wooldridge, Harry Ellis (1845–1917)' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
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