storage for links to information on Daniel Cottier

[winterbadger]

My dad asked me to look into a 19th century Glasgow artist and designer named Daniel Cottier.

Cottier, who was famous for his stained glass and painted furniture, worked in Glasgow and later had galleries in London, New York, and Sydney. The New York office, it would seem, sold a painted tile with a very pre-Raphaelite painting of a royal lady (perhaps Queen Guinevere?) that ended up in a house in Montclair, NJ, where many years later my father encountered it. When my parents sold the house, he decided to keep the tile, and he has had it with him ever since. He's done a bit of digging to find out information about Daniel Cottier, but the library resources available to him are a bit limited, and he's not the most Internet-savvy researcher. So I said I'd see what I could dig up.

Now I know a very brainy lady who's going to study art in Glasgow very soon (!) :-) and I would be grateful for any help she could render, but here's what I've come up with so far. This is mostly a placeholder so I can store links and images. I wish I thought this would be an easy way to get the info to my dad, but I think I'll end up printing stuff out and writing him a precis of what I can find.

Alas, there's lots of information (relatively speaking) out on the Web about Cottier's work in glass, and a few bits on his furniture work, but I have yet to see anything about tile painting. I don't for a moment think that Dad's tile is painted by Cottier *himself*, but I think the *design* may have come from him. Can find nothing on his tile work, however.

And I see very little about his New York operation, though there was a hint on one page that he was actually there for a while.

I will be interested to find out more about Mr Donnealy's attempt to write a bio of DC.

I think the next step may be a trip to the LoC.

articles on Cottier
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/people/artists/dcottier.htm (bio article)
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_6_159/ai_111453725 (Magazine Antiques, June 2001)
http://www.scotstainedglass.com/ (website of Michael Donnely, who is working on a bio of DC)
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100179b.htm (information on John Lamb Lyon, partner oc Cottier's)
http://www.stainedglass.org/html/SGAAhistorySG.htm (brief bio info on Cottier)
http://www.colmusart.org/html/s03collection13.shtml (Columbia Museum; brief ref. to Cottier in art glass article)
http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow.cfm?id=433602004 (review of stage play about Cottier)

articles on the restoration of Downahill Church, Glasgow, aka the Cottier Theatre aka The Cottier
http://www.thecottier.com/history.html (the website for the Cottier)
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/sample_friend_article.htm?articleid=21066 (HS article on the DC)
http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow.cfm?id=1399102003 (21 Dec 2003)
http://www.americanglassguild.org/new_page_1.htm (paragrpah on one of the restorers)
http://www.codexgeo.co.uk/dsa/architect_full.php?id=M000002 (bio of architecht of DC)
http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk/fgw/atrisk/fact/cottier.htm (FACT article on DC)
http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk/show.php?contentid=40 (project to celebrate Cottier)

references to other buildings containing work by Cottier
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA05076 (Queen's Park United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow)
http://www.stainedglassmuseum.com/collections/760905f.htm (window by Cottier in Trinity Church, Irvine, Ayrshire)
http://www.stainedglassmuseum.com/collections/760906f.htm (info--no picture--on second window in TC/I)
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/staingls.html (two windows by Cottier at Harvard)
http://www.brocweb.com/spire/history.html (Roystonhill Spire & Park Project)
http://www.trinityboston.org/arc_lmk_win.asp (Trinity Church, Boston)
http://canning.firstcontactsuite.com/newsletter/AE/aprilwebletter.htm (mention of a lecture on Cottier's Trinity Church work)
http://www.albertstainedglass.com/restoration.htm (unidentifed window, possibly by Cottier)
http://www.bw-linkshotel.co.uk/Weddings.asp (hotel with window by Cottier)
http://www.hillhouse-antiques.co.uk/static/danielcottiertable.htm (Cottier table at Hill House)
http://homepages.tesco.net/~pilrigRA/misc/p-mem.htm#DanielCottier (piece on Cottier in connection with Pilrig church)
http://www.collearnhousehotel.co.uk/index.htm (Coll Earn House, now a hotel, in Auchterarder, with lots of Cottier windows)
http://www.achome.co.uk/antiques/antiques.htm (currently carry some Cottier painted furniture)

passing references to Cottier
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/audsleys/events.asp
paper entitled Scotland’s Stained Glass: Making the Colours Sing
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Artists/r/Albert_Pinkham_Ryder/index.html (Albert Pinkham Ryder, a friend of Cottier)
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/albert_pinkham_ryder_1847.htm (more on Ryder)
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_art/viewOne.asp?dep=11&viewmode=1&item=07.267 (painting owned by Cottier)
http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/A_Capriote.htm (another painting owned by Cottier)
http://home.teleport.com/~art4sale/photo/warner.htm (bust of Cottier)

Comments

[rethought.livejournal.com]

It's not completely on topic, but in the St. Michael's church in Linlithgow, there is this window.

The picture does it no justice. In real life it is absolutely breath taking. It's the best window I've seen and I've seen all the famous and so called 'best' windows in Paris, Rome, Florence, etc.

The roundel of St. Andrews cross was deliberately skewed in order to match the medieval idea that only God can create perfect things. :)

[winterbadger]

That looks beautiful!

The roundel of St. Andrews cross was deliberately skewed in order to match the medieval idea that only God can create perfect things. :)

I've heard that of some Middle Easter/Central Asian art too. I love the implication that if the artist didn't deliberately make a mistake, the work would be perfect. The humility of artists is a historical constant, I perceive. ;-)

Have I told you how much I LOVE that icon, BTW? It rocks! :-)

[rethought.livejournal.com]

I'm an icon making fool. ;)

The font is called 'Kelmscott' and it's taken somewhat from the Book of Kells. I'd like to use it in my wedding invitations, but those are a long way off, thank the Maker.

If you ever have something you need photoshop'd, I'll take a shot at it.

[winterbadger]

Thanks! That's a generous offer.

It's struck me that I tend to make a lot of topical icons, which is fine except that flit around from topic to topic a lot. :-) At some point I need to make some more general icons to express common reactions. First I need to figure out what those would be and how I'd liek to express them, but I will certainly call on my Aberdonian friend if I need help with the execution.