Horatio Walter Lonsdale
Horatio Walter Lonsdale | |
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 The Banqueting Hall, Cardiff Castle, decorated by Lonsdale | |
| Born | 1845 or 1846 Mexico |
| Died | (aged 73) London |
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Horatio Walter Lonsdale (1845/1846 – 8 September 1919)[1] was an English painter and designer.
Life and works
Lonsdale was born in Mexico in 1845 or 1846.[1][2] After training as an architect,[3] Lonsdale established a long partnership with the architect William Burges, working with him as his principal artist on many of Burges's major commissions,[4] including Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral,[5] Cardiff Castle,[6] Castell Coch and the Yorkshire churches.[7] Lonsdale worked so closely with Burges, particularly in the design of stained glass, that "it is often hard to say how much of any given design is Burges's and how much is (Lonsdale's) — designs were often initialled by both."[4] He also designed the zodiac windows and celestial ceiling at Mount Stuart House[8] and the silver casket in which the heart of Burges's great patron, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute was transported to Jerusalem for burial in 1900.[9][a] Burges's biographer, Joseph Mordaunt Crook, summed up Lonsdale's career; "a draughtsman of exceptional precision, his best work was all for Burges. Without the master's control, much of his later work tends to be mechanical and vapid.”[10]
Exhibitions
An exhibition of Lonsdale's work, organised by the Yale Center for British Art, was held at Gallery Lingard in 1984.[11] In 2013/2014, an exhibition titled Searching For A New Jerusalem at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in University College Cork presented cartoons by Lonsdale for the stained glass windows in Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral.[12] An Irish stamp was issued in 2021 to mark the 150th anniversary of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1871. The stamp featured a detail of the cartoon by Lonsdale of the Sun, Moon and Stars panel for one of the stained glass windows in Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral.[13][14] A collection of Lonsdale illustrations and cartoons, for the decoration of Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute where it is held, was catalogued in 2022.[15] In the same year, an exhibition held at the house, Fantasy to Fabrication: 19th century design at Mount Stuart, included examples of Lonsdale's art.[16] Lonsdale was a member of the Royal Academy.[17]
Gallery
Design for stained glass in St Nicholas and St Cyriacus, South Pool, Devon (1885). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg)
Banqueting Hall at Castell Coch, Wales
West window of St Michael's Church, Brighton (1895)
Stained glass in the East window of St Fachtna's Cathedral, Rosscarbery, Ireland (1907)
Design for stained glass for a church in Simsbury, Connecticut (1908). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The second light of the west window of St Matthias' Church, Brighton (1917)
Footnotes
- ↑ Lonsdale also drew the cartoons for the frieze, dome and windows of the James A. Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio.
References
- 1 2 "Deaths". Dublin Daily Express. 13 September 1919. p. 2. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
LONSDALE–September 8, at New Brighton, Horatio Walter Lonsdale, of 3 John street, Bedford row, London, W.C., aged 73.
- ↑ Some references give 1844 as year of birth: "H. W. Lonsdale (1844-1919)". Victorianweb.org. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ↑ Hannah 2012, p. 93.
- 1 2 "H. W. Lonsdale (1844-1919)". Victorianweb.org. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ↑ "Horatio Walter Lonsdale (1844-1919)". Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ↑ "Horatio Walter Lonsdale (1844-1919)". Stained Glass in Wales. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ↑ "Christ the Consoler, Skelton". Historic England. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ↑ Walker 2000, p. 610.
- ↑ Hannah 2012, p. 355.
- ↑ Crook 2013, pp. 70–71.
- ↑ "Horatio Walter Lonsdale catalogue". Yale Center for British Art. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ↑ O'Sullivan, Tina Darb (12 December 2013). "Letting in the light divine". Irish Examiner. p. 12. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- ↑ "New stamp marks church date". Westmeath Examiner. 16 January 2021. p. 15.
- ↑ Stanford, Melanie (2021). "The Collector: An Post Stamps 01/21" (PDF). An Post. p. 5. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- ↑ Sheldrick, Abigail (3 October 2022). "Constellations, Murals & Mythology: Exploring the Lonsdale Archive Collection". Mount Stuart Estate. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ↑ "Fantasy to Fabrication: 19th century design at Mount Stuart". The Decorative Arts Society. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ↑ "Horatio Walter Lonsdale (b. 1844)". Royal Academy. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
Sources
- Crook, J. Mordaunt (2013). William Burges and the High Victorian Dream. London, UK: Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-7112-3349-2.
- Hannah, Rosemary (2012). The Grand Designer: Third Marquess of Bute. Birlinn. ISBN 9781780270272.
- Walker, Frank Arneil (2000). Argyll and Bute. The Buildings of Scotland. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300096705.