Arts and Crafts - 21st June 2017
Lot 231
James Egan (1847-1918) Angels
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £8500
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Description
James Egan (1847-1918)
Angels,
watercolour and silver highlighter, framed
unsigned
65 x 23.5cm. (3)
Catalogue notes
James Egan is best known for his series of stained glass windows made between 1890 and 1899 for Hambleton church, Rutland. This was a commission instigated by and in collaboration with the architect John T. Lee, with whom Egan worked on a number of occasions. Egan was born in Cheapside, London and by 1871 was employed as a glass-painter. He worked for Morris & Co as a glass-painter, leaving in the early 1880s to set up a short-lived partnership with Frederick Fletcher. He continued to work for Morris & Co. It has been suggested these watercolours are possibly designs for a painted altar-piece or mural decoration.
Woolley and Wallis would like to thank Peter Cormack MBE for his help in cataloguing this lot.