Aikman, William
William Aikman (1868-1959) was born in Edinburgh and was an apprentice with Ballantine and Son. He moved to London in 1892 to work as a glass-painter and occasional designer for James Powell & Sons. As a glass-painter he worked closely with William Blake Richmond and Peter Cormack feels there are occasional echoes of Richmond’s figure drawing style in some of his later windows. Aikman left Powell’s and set up his own studio in 1913. He taught at Camberwell School of Art after the First World War.
William Aikman was a founder member of the British Society of Master Glass Painters in 1921, serving on its council.
Sources:
Arts & Crafts Stained Glass by Peter Cormack (Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2015)
Stained Glass Marks & Monograms, complied by Joyce Little, and edited by Angela Goedicke & Margaret Washbourn (NADFAS, 2002)
The Artists of the Glass House by Alan Brooks and Peter Cormack, The Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XLI, 2017
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England: A Handbook by Barrie Armstrong and Wendy Armstrong (Oblong Creative, 2005)