International studio (23.1904)

The Stained Glass JVindows of IVilliam IVillet

The stained glass windows
OF WILLIAM WILLET. BY
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE.
There is a tradition that once in the Middle
Ages a wealthy patron of the Arts determined to

appointed. The art patron, who had always
seemed to be well-disposed to him, is said to have
met him in the street after the final decision had
been made, and to have remarked airily: “I
should have been glad to engage you to make my
memorial window, but it seemed to me sufficiently
important to secure an artist to do the work.”


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WINDOW BY WILLIAM WILLET

place in a cathedral a magnificent memorial win-
dow. In his native town lived a man who had
shown great ability in designing and creating works
of this kind, and who, naturally, therefore, expected
to receive the commission for this monument to the
nobleman’s departed ancestors. But he was dis-

He had accordingly gone to a famous painter
who knew nothing about the peculiar exigencies
of the medium in which his picture was to^be
reproduced.
History is ever repeating herself, and doubtless
that mediaeval misconception of the status of the

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