History of Emmanuel's Land Window

History of the Emmanuel's Land Window

Frederic Crowinshield (1845-1918) taught at the Museum of Fine Arts School of Drawing and Painting when it was housed in the basement of the Museum on Copley Square. Having studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and with Thomas Couture, he learned to make stained-glass through an early collaboration with Donald MacDonald, a Boston designer.


	photo by Matthew Griffing
	Piety, flanked by Discretion, Prudence and Charity, shows Pilgrim Emmanuel's Land.

The inscription at the base of the window reads, "Then Pilgrim asked the name of the country. They said it was Emmanuel's Land. In loving memory of Mrs. Howard Payson Arnold. And for thy peace, thou wast beloved". The quotation is from Ecclesiasticus 47:16, which describes King Solomon.

	Detail of the inscription before and after restoration.

In 1899, Crowninshield designed our window in memory of his mother, Mrs. Howard Payson Arnold, who had died in 1897. Born Caroline Marie Welch in 1820, she had married his father, Edward A. Crowninshield, in 1840. He had died in 1859 at age 41. Frederic's two brothers subsequently died in their twenties.
	Caroline Marie Welch at age 18
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