St Margaret of Scotland 1924
Stained glass, lead | RCIN 39198
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Louis Davis (1860-1941)
St Margaret of Scotland 1924
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A stained glass panel depicting St Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) standing in a colourful, flower-filled meadow, with her husband, Malcolm III, behind her. She holds a scroll bearing a plan of Dunfermline Abbey, where their marriage took place in 1070.
St Margaret founded the Bendictine Abbey of Dunfermline in 1072. Her son, David I of Scotland found Holyrood Abbey in 1128.
Louis Davis trained at the South Kensington Art Training School in the 1880s and worked as an illustrator. Following a period lodging with the stained glass artist Christopher Whall, he collaborated with Whall on a couple of commissions. Davis' style combined the Pre-Raphaelite naturalism with the respect for craft skills of the Arts and Crafts movement. He also worked with the Powell & Sons stained glass workshop.Provenance
Made for the Scottish section of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, 1924-5, where displayed in Basilica, Gallery F, F8, £200.
Presented to the Holyrood Amenity Trust by Colonel John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl, June 1927, in gratitude for King George V's support in establishing the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle in 1927. -
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Stained glass, lead
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Queen Margaret of Scotland