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Mary Ellin Miles (1819 - 1884)
Mary Ellin Miles was an artist and glass painter. Despite being an amateur artist, her work was admired by John Ruskin and she designed and painted a series of windows in English churches during the mid-Victorian period.
Family
Mary Ellin Miles was the daughter of a clergyman, Rev. J. J. Cleaver, and in 1844 married her cousin, Robert Henry William Miles. The Miles family money was derived from the slave trade.[1] In 1844 Robert and Mary moved to Bingham in Nottinghamshire where Robert had been appointed as Rector.
'Amateur' Stained Glass
Stained glass made by non-professionals was quite widespread.[2] Mary Miles made windows for churches in Nottinghamshire (Bingham) and Somerset (East Brent and
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Detail of a window designed and painted by Mary Miles, Bingham, Nottinghamshire.
- ^ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ Kupper, Thomas (2020-08-05). "Amateur Stained Glass in English Churches, 1830-80". 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. 2020 (30). doi:10.16995/ntn.2895. ISSN 1755-1560.
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