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Adam, Stephen [1848-1910. UK. Stained Glass Designer]
Adam, Stephen [1848-1910. UK. Stained Glass Designer]
Stephen Adam [also known as Stephen Adam, Snr.] was born in Bonnington, near Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1848. In the early 1860s he was apprenticed to the glass-painter James Ballantine of Ballantine & Allan, Edinburgh. During these years he also attended classes at the Trustees’ and Haldane Academies in Edinburgh and Glasgow. In 1865, he began working as an assistant to Daniel Cottier in Glasgow. He left in 1870 to set up his own business with David Small (1846–1927). From 1896 to 1904 was in partnership with his son, Stephen Adam, Jnr., in the Glasgow-based stained glass firm Stephen Adam & Co.
Stephen Adam, Snr. exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute for the Fine Arts; the
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh; and at the Royal Academy in London. He was the author of Stained Glass: Its History and Development (1877) and Truth in Decorative Art: Stained Glass, Medieval and Modern (c. 1896). He died at his house in Glasgow in August 1910.
Stephen Adam, Snr. exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute for the Fine Arts; the
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh; and at the Royal Academy in London. He was the author of Stained Glass: Its History and Development (1877) and Truth in Decorative Art: Stained Glass, Medieval and Modern (c. 1896). He died at his house in Glasgow in August 1910.
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