Harriet Ludlow Clarke

Harriet Ludlow Clarke
Born	United Kingdom
Died	January 19, 1866 Cannes, France
Nationality	British
Known for	Engraving Stained glass

Harriet Ludlow Clarke (died January 19, 1866) was a wood engraver and stained glass artist.

Life

Harriet Ludlow Clarke was the fourth daughter of Edward Clarke, a London solicitor. Around 1837 she started trying to earn a living as a wood engraver, which was then unusual for a woman. Attracting the notice of the engraver William Harvey, she executed a large cut from his design for the Penny Magazine in 1838. With Harvey's support, Clarke earned a good deal of money, which she used to build model labourers' homes at Cheshunt. A friend of Anna Jameson, she contributed some of the illustrations to Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art, as well as making engravings of classic paintings for The Art Journal.^[1]

In 1841, she and her sister Elizabeth (wife to the legal reformer Charles Henry Bellenden Ker) were depicted sketching from a balcony in a popular oil painting by Charles Eastlake.^[2]

Clarke also became a designer and painter on glass, studying at home and abroad to master the techniques, and helped by the leading stained glass painter William Wailes. About 1851 she executed a window, showing Saint Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar, in St Martin's Church, Canterbury, which was being restored by the Hon. Daniel Finch. From 1852 to 1854 she was commissioned by Henry Berens to paint two windows for the new church at Sidcup, and on Berens's death executed a further window erected by subscription to his memory. She executed for the queen a large window in the church of North Marston, to commemorate a bequest to her majesty by Mr. Neald of an estate in that parish. The Rev. Robert Moore employed her to execute a large window in the north-west transept of Canterbury Cathedral, representing the history of Thomas a Beckett. Though she prepared full-sized colour cartoons for this, failing health prevented her from executing her designs on glass: the windows were put up in May 1863 by Mr Hughes of Frith Street, Soho. From this point onwards ill-health stopped Clarke's activity as an artist. There is another small memorial window by her in St Martin's Church, Canterbury.^[1]

References

Footnotes

1 2 Cust 1887.
↑ Michael Cohen, Sisters: relation and rescue in nineteenth-century British novels and paintings, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995, p. 36

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1887). "Clarke, Harriet Ludlow". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 426.
Gentleman's Magazine, 4th series, 1866, i. 436

British and Irish stained glass

British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918)

History

Influences

Artistic movements	Aesthetic Movement Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts Movement Biblia pauperum Cambridge Camden Society Classicism Early Renaissance Exoticism Gothic Revival Oxford Movement Romanticism

Organisations	The Glass House Hogarth Club Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

People

Architectural	John Loughborough Pearson Augustus Pugin George Gilbert Scott Alexander Thomson

Artists	Edward Liddall Armitage Hugh Arnold Alfred E. Child Margaret Chilton Harry Clarke Walter Francis Clokey Charles Edmund Clutterbuck Trena Cox Louis Davis works Rachel de Montmorency Alfred Drury Mabel Esplin Moira Forsyth Wilhelmina Geddes Jane Gray Reginald Hallward works Herbert Hendrie James Humphries Hogan Evie Hone Joan Howson works Marjorie Kemp Charles Eamer Kempe Mary Lowndes William Morris Catherine Amelia O’Brien Karl Parsons works Henry Payne works Lilian Josephine Pocock Patrick Pollen Sarah Purser Ethel Rhind Arnold Wathen Robinson works Arild Rosenkrantz Francis Skeat works Caroline Townshend works Christopher Webb Christopher Whall works Veronica Whall works Thomas Willement William Wilson Paul Woodroffe works Edward Woore works British stained-glass artists Irish stained-glass artists

Critics	John Ruskin

Manufacturers	An Túr Gloine Burlison and Grylls Harry Clarke Clayton and Bell Walter Francis Clokey Daniel Cottier John Hardman & Co. Heaton, Butler and Bayne Hincks and Burnell Lavers, Barraud and Westlake Morris & Co. James Powell and Sons Shrigley and Hunt William Wailes William Warrington

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