Tiffany Stained Glass Windows

Millet was a protégé of John La Farge, the great stained glass designer.  Millet was introduced to the art of stained glass, in 1878, working with La Farge as his assistant on the stained glass windows for Trinity Church in Boston.  Subsequently, Millet designed windows several clients.

Annenberg Memorial Hall, Harvard

Two of the stained glass windows Millet designed were for the Annenberg Memorial Hall on Harvard Campus, in Cambridge Massachusetts.

This photo shows the Gen. Warren and Rev. Eliot window in place, just left of the column in the center of the photo in Annenberg Hall.

The following list identifies the Tiffany windows Millet designed that were manufactured at Tiffany Studios.  They are recorded in the Tiffany Census as:

1889, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Harvard University, Annenberg Hall: Class of 1878 Memorial Window: Gen. Joseph Warren and Rev. John Eliot

1889, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Harvard University, Annenberg Hall: Class of 1861 Memorial Window: Student and Soldier

Lifelong friends, Millet and Saint-Gaudens both worked on stained glass windows for the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Lynn,  Massachusetts. Millet did two windows, one of St. Stephen preaching to children and the other of him being stoned.                                                    While Saint-Gaudens created his drawings for the Mudge memorial windows while working in the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York City. Millet was also working with Tiffany. Other windows in the church exhibit emerging techniques used by the Tiffany Studios like “confetti glass” and layering of individual panes over each other to create greater depth of image. The range of artistry in this one building is truly superb and also features the windows by Francis Davis Millet. While working on this commission for the the Mudge family, Tiffany and Millet were also collaborating on another extraordinary project, the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue in New York City through Tiffany’s formation of a creative firm called Associated Artists (that would also work on Mark Twain’s house and the White House.) Saint-Gaudens is believed to have had a hand in the decoration of the Armory’s interiors as well and a comparison of the two projects is very worthwhile.

Other Tiffany Windows by FD Millet

Two other windows by Millet can be seen in Lynn, Mass. and one window in Stockbridge, Mass.

1881, Massachusetts, Lynn, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church: Mudge Memorial Window: St. Stephen preaching as a child.  Both Lynn Mass. photos below are use by permission, Joe Keating, photographer.

1881, Massachusetts, Lynn, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church: Mudge Memorial Window: St. Stephen being stoned to death.

1886, Massachusetts, Stockbridge, St. Paul’s Church: Choate Memorial Window: Christian Soldier,  Image below used by permission of the photographer, Wayne Boucher.