John Carter (1848–1901)
Designer responsible for hundreds of windows made for Charles Eamer Kempe in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. John Thomas Carter became an assistant to Kempe in about 1869, designing windows for him throughout the 1870s, and assuming the role of chief designer in around 1878 until his retirement in 1895.
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Figures from the Bible and Saints firm/studio: C.E. Kempe cartoonist: Wyndham Hope Hughes designer: John Carter 1883 Church of All Saints, Newbridge-on-Wye sanctuary apse (window number: I) | |
Saints firm/studio: C.E. Kempe designer: John Carter 1884 Church of St Cadoc, Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Monmouthshire south wall of the south transept (window number: sIII) |
Further reading
Adrian Barlow, Espying Heaven: The Stained Glass of Charles Eamer Kempe and his Artists (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2019), pp. 15–23 and further references.
Adrian Barlow, Kempe: The Life, Art and Legacy of Charles Eamer Kempe (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2018), pp. 75–96 and further references.
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