Monier's father also named Jean was a glass painter and early mentor.
The glass painter then uses neutral colors to draw the images - faces, bodies, material, religious symbols, and so forth.
Between 1820 and 1840 some 40 different glass painters appear in the London trades directories.
They are shown alongside 60 stained-glass panels that talented glass painters translated into windows.
His father was in the glass trade and he too trained as a glass painter.
Abesch was the first professional reverse glass painter in Switzerland.
He was first trained as a glass painter and in 1628 moved to Leiden to learn painting in oils.
The British movement and its pursuit of true quality in craftsmanship generated glass painters with great skills.
He has been described as the last of the great stained glass painters in Holland.
Both was born in Utrecht, the son of a glass painter.