John Hardman & Co. (1838-2008)
John Hardman was one of the pioneers of the stained glass revival of the nineteenth century. His Birmingham-based firm started out as an ecclesiastical metal works, and, following the suggestion of A.W.N. Pugin, the business expanded into stained glass production in 1845. Pugin designed for the firm until his death in 1852 when this role passed to John Hardman's nephew and Pugin's son-in-law John Hardman Powell. John Hardman was a Roman Catholic, and his association with Pugin assured their popularity among Catholic patrons well into the twentieth century.
John Hardman & Co. continued under John Tarleton Hardman (1872–1959), and subsequently Donald Battershill Taunton (1886-1965) and Patrick Feeny (1910-1995), both of whom had joined the studio as boys. The firm was renamed John Hardman Studios in about 1939, by which time their windows had largely moved away from the Victorian and Edwardian Gothic Revival styles that had defined their work. The firm continued into the first years of the twenty-first century, led by the designer David Williams.
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Further reading
'Glass Painters 1750–1850' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 1 (1959–60), 326–38.
Michael Fisher, Hardman of Birmingham, Goldsmith and Glasspainter (Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2008).
'Obituary: Donald Battershill Taunton' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiv, no. 3 (1967), 156–7.
Stanley A. Shepherd, The Stained Glass of A W N Pugin (Reading: Spire Books, 2009).
Mathé Shepheard, The Stained Glass of John Hardman and Company under the leadership of John Hardman Powell from 1867 to 1895 (2007).
Paul Thompson, William Butterfield (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971), pp. 463–6.
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