Artist

Francis Eginton

Portrait of Francis Eginton

English, 1737–1805

Francis Eginton was an English Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Francis Eginton (1737–1805), sometimes spelled Egginton, was an English glass painter. He painted windows for cathedrals, churches, chapels and stately homes, etc., around the country, leaving 50 large works altogether; his work was also exported abroad. His masterpiece is The Conversion of St. Paul, for the east window of St Paul's Church, Birmingham. He also developed a method for reproducing paintings mechanically.

Collections represented

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