Michael and Arthur O'Connor

Firm producing stained glass. Michael O'Connor (1801-67) was a native of Dublin, and worked as a heraldic painter. He moved to England and settled first in Bristol, and subsequently moved to London in 1845, where he sustained a successful business. He was a pupil of Thomas Willement, and also collaborated with A.W.N. Pugin. Prominent among his windows are those for St Saviour's, Leeds. His work was shown at the Great Exhibition, 1851.

Arthur O'Connor (1826-73) was one of his sons, who became his partner in the firm at about that date. Another son, William Henry, joined the firm in the 1860s, as did William George Taylor (born 1822) in 1873. Taylor subsequently led the firm from 1877 as Taylor & O'Connor and then Taylor & Clifton, continuing into the early twentieth century.

Further reading

Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 92.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 14.

Martin Harrison, Victorian Stained Glass (London: 1980), pp. 18, 81–2 and further references.

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	The Transfiguration firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor 1854 Church of St Michael, Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent (liturgical) north wall
	Scenes from the Life of Christ firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor about 1855 Church of St David, Pantasaph, Flintshire east wall of the chancel
	The Resurrection with the Four Evangelists and Scenes from the Passion firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor 1859 Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire east wall of the chancel
	The Ascension firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor 1859 Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire south wall of the sanctuary
	The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John firm/studio: Arthur O'Connor 1859 Church of St Michael, Manafon, Powys east wall of the chancel
	Musical Angels firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor 1859 Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire west wall
	The Crucifixion firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor 1859 Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire north wall of the sanctuary
	Agnus Dei firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor 1859 Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire east end of the north aisle
	The Nativity firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor about 1860 Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire west end of the north wall of the chancel
	Love One Another firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor patron: Hay Williams (family) about 1860 Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire south wall of the chancel

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