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Richard King (1907-1974)


Born in County Mayo, Richard King joined Joshua Clarke & Sons in Dublin and was encouraged by Harry Clarke to enrol at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art to study stained glass. He became the firm's chief designer after Clarke's death in 1931, and succeeded Charles Simmonds as manager in 1935. King left to establish his own stained glass studio in Dalkey in 1940, and many examples of his work may be found in Ireland. He also worked as a painter and illustrator, and designed stamps.



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  St Gregory and St Gertrude St Gregory and St Gertrude
firm/studio: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd
designer: Richard King
1932
Church of St David, Pantasaph, Flintshire
west end of the south aisle
  St Teresa and St Catherine St Teresa and St Catherine
firm/studio: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd
designer: Richard King
1933
Church of St David, Pantasaph, Flintshire
south wall of the south aisle (west end)
  The Assumption of the Virgin Mary The Assumption of the Virgin Mary
artist: Richard King
1955
Church of Our Lady of the Angels and St Winefride, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
east wall of the chancel (window number: I)
 Our Lady of Ireland Our Lady of Ireland
artist: Richard King
about 1958
Church of the Holy Cross, Aberaeron, Ceredigion
Further reading

Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 75.

Ruth Sheehy, 'The Art of Richard King: Nazareth House' Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 84, no. 335 (1995), 267–77.

Ruth Sheehy, The Life and Work of Richard King: Religion, Nationalism and Modernism (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020).





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