The Lady of Shalott stained glass window
Designer Matthys Maris Dutch
Factory owner Daniel Cottier British, Scottish
Cottier & Co.
Not on view
This collaboration between a painter and a designer-entrepreneur reveals the creative synergies of late nineteenth-century New York’s overlapping cultural circles. Cottier combined his artistic and business talents in the marketing of Aesthetic goods in both London and New York. His gallery at 144 Fifth Avenue, along the Ladies Mile, hosted exhibitions of progressive American and European art and employed painters like Maris and Albert Pinkham Ryder to produce decorative objects. These efforts laid the groundwork for the Society of American Artists’ formation in 1877. Cottier’s and Maris’s stained glass—including this example featuring a subject from Arthurian legend by way of the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson—emulated that of the English Pre-Raphaelites.
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