Artist

John Christmas

John Christmas is a Baroque artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Christmas worked in the 1630s, leaving behind precise architectural drawings. One of them shows the carved stone font inside Canterbury Cathedral, drawn around 1638–1639. The sheet records baluster shafts and cherubic heads in careful ink lines, a snapshot of English church craft before the Civil War. See how he labeled each molding and noted proportions on the sheet. If you like these measured, functional designs, tap Canterbury Cathedral Font Design.

Works by John Christmas

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.