Westlake, Nathaniel
![Nathaniel Westlake and Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, east window of the Spring Chapel (c.1880), Church of St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk. Nathaniel Westlake and Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, east window of the Spring Chapel (c.1880), Church of St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk. | Photo: Peter Hildebrand](https://www.visitstainedglass.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Westlake-Lavenham-458x573.jpg)
Nathaniel Hubert John Westlake (1833–1921) was not only a fine painter and stained glass designer, but also a fine scholar of the history of stained glass. His most well-known publication being A History of Design in Painted Glass. His career as a stained glass designer had two distinct phases. The first early-Gothic inspired phase, of which the Worcester Cathedral window highlighted below is an example, peaked in 1864-65. This was followed by a more pictorial style, as demonstrated by the east window of the Spring Chapel at Lavenham, illustrated opposite.
Sources:
Angels & Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870 by William Waters (Seraphim Press Ltd, 2012)
Stained Glass Marks and Monograms. Complied by Joyce little (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002)
Victorian Stained Glass by Martin Harrison (London : Barrie & Jenkins, 1980)