Frederic Shields (1833-1911)
English artist. Born in Hartlepool, Frederic James Shields worked initially as an engraver and lithographer. He worked subsequently as a watercolour and oil painter, and as a decorative artist, including designs for stained glass and mosaic.
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The Transfiguration designer: John Pollard Seddon firm/studio: S. Belham & Co. designer: Frederic Shields 1884 Church of St Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion east wall of the chancel |
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William Waters, Saints and Symbols: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2021), pp. 243–91.
P. G. Konody, 'Shields, Frederic James (1833-1911)' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Clyde Binfield, 'The image and the Word: A chapel dimension' (London: SPCK, 2008), pp. 114-121.
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