Horatio Walter Lonsdale (1846-1919) was an English painter and designer.

Life and works

Lonsdale was born in Mexico in 1846. After training as an architect, Lonsdale established a long partnership with the architect

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, working with him as his principal artist on many of his major commissions, including

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, Cardiff Castle,

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and Burges's Yorkshire churches. Lonsdale worked so closely with Burges's, particularly in the design of stained glass, that "it is often hard to say how much of any given design is Burges's and how much is (Lonsdale's) — designs were often initialled by both." He also designed the zodiac windows and celestial ceiling at Mount Stuart House.and the silver

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in which the heart of Burges's great patron, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute was transported to Jerusalem for burial in 1900. Lonsdale also drew the cartoons for the frieze, dome and windows in the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio Burges's biographer, Joseph Mordaunt Crook, sums up Lonsdale's career thus, "a draughtsman of exceptional precision, his best work was all for Burges. Without the master's control, much of his later work tends to be mechanical and vapid".

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