Barnard Flower (died July or August 1517) was a

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glazier. He was King's Glazier to Henry VII and

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from 1505 to 1517, the first non-Englishman to hold this office. Flower came to work in England in the late 15th century. By 1496 he was working for Henry VIII providing glass for

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and then

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the following year. He was based in

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to avoid the restrictions imposed by the Glaziers' Company in the

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. Stained glass attributed to Flower include parts of the West Window of

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, windows in

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, and most of the glazing at St Mary's Church, Fairford, which has the most complete set of mediaeval stained glass windows in England. Flower's successor as the King's Glazier was

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who had trained in Antwerp.

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, ''The King's Glass: A Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art'' (London, 2007).

References

St George's Chapel, Windsor
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