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JEAN BAPTISTE CAPRONNIER (1814-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 292 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN
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BAPTISTE CAPRONNIER (1814-1891)
  , Belgian stained-glass painter, was born in Brussels in 1814, and died there in 1891 . He had much to do with the
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modern revival of glass-
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painting, and first made his reputation by his study of the old methods of workmanship, and his
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clever restorations of old examples, and copies made for the Brussels archaeological museum . He carried out windows for various churches in Brussels, Bruges, Amsterdam and elsewhere, and his
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work was commissioned also for France, Italy and England . At the Paris
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Exhibition of 1855 he won the only medal given for glass-painting .

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