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Rachel de Montmorency, née Rachel Marion Tancock (15 July 1891 – 15 November 1961), was an English painter and artist working in stained glass. She learned about stained glass when she worked for artist Christopher Whall in the 1910s and 1920s. During World War I she worked as a voluntary nurse. After she married Miles de Montmorency in 1931 the couple often worked together on her commissions. She was a follower of the Arts and Crafts Movement. ==Biography== She was born on 15 July 1891 at Rossall, Fleetwood, Lancashire. Her father, the Rev. Charles Tancock D.D., was the headmaster of the public school there. Tancock was to move and became headmaster of Tonbridge School in Kent and here he hired stained glass artist Christopher Whall to create a set of windows for the school’s chapel.〔"Women Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement Catalog." William Morris Gallery Exhibition and Brangwyn Gift in 1985. Retrieved 15 August 2012〕 Rachel became one of Whall’s pupils after completing her studies at Heathfield School. She studied painting and stained glass-making whilst assisting in Whall’s studio. She assisted Whall and Edward Woore with windows at Sorbie Church in Wigtownshire in 1910. It was here that she would have met Edward Woore, Karl Parsons, and Arnold Robinson〔 She was accepted in 1914 as a probationer at the Royal Academy Schools but when war broke out that year she chose to put her painting studies on hold and enrolled in the V.A.D. Voluntary Aid Detachment as a nurse and worked in that capacity throughout the Great War. After the war she became an assistant and then manager of Edward Woore's studio at St Peter’s Square in Hammersmith. In 1925 Woore moved to a studio in Putney and Rachel continued to work with him and also produced her own work, including the St. Botolph’s war memorial window and the T.H. Mason memorial window in the Rottingdean School Hall.〔 In 1931 she married artist Miles de Montmorency (1893–1963) who would often assist her with her stained glass work. In the late 1920s she worked on windows designed by Professor R.M.Y. Gleadowe for the College Hall of Winchester College. and carried out two windows to Gleadowe’s design for Cheltenham College. For a period the Montmorencys were to live in Winchester. Miles was to inherit a baronetcy late in life.〔 In 1939 she completed one of her finest windows, a three-light memorial window to her father in the Tonbridge School Chapel, which complemented windows in the chapel by Whall, Parsons and Lilian Josephine Pocock. Unfortunately, all the Tonbridge windows were destroyed in a fire which ravaged the chapel in 1988.〔(''Tonbridge School.'' ) Kent County Organists’Association. Retrieved 15 August 2012. Note:Article mentioning 1988 fire.〕 Although Hallward was crippled by arthritis in her later years, she was able to work until a few days before her death on 15 November 1961.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rachel de Montmorency」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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