Stained glass Avelin

The stained glass Avelin already existed in the early 18th century in Tours and from an existing several generations of family dynasty developed glass painters .

Jean Avelin († 1744)

Jean Avelin, a son of the glass painter Louis François Avelin in Tours, settled in Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. His workshop was in 1726 on Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs. On September 7, 1727 he married the daughter of François Oran. Jean Avelin was president and administrator of the Saint-Sacrement de Saint-Roch brotherhood in the parish of Saint Roch in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.

He died in Paris on August 28, 1744, leaving five children behind. His two sons, Nicolas Maximilien and Jean Jacques, continued the family tradition of stained glass.

Jean Jacques Avelin (* 1730)

Jean Avelin's eldest son also became a glass painter and in 1758 had his workshop on Rue Neuve.

Nicolas Maximilien Avelin (* 1735)

The younger son of Jean Avelin settled in the Rue des Grands-Augustins in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and is still mentioned in 1792 as a glass painter.

In the course of the 19th century, there were still glass painters with the name Avelin in Paris, who probably descended from the same family.

literature

• Elisabeth Pillet: Le vitrail à Paris au XIXe siècle. Entretenir, conserver, restaurer . ( Corpus Vitrearum France - Études IX) Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2010, ISBN 978-2-7535-0945-0 , p. 27.