Eglington Margaret Pearson

Eglington Margaret Pearson (née Paterson; baptised 5 November 1746 – 14 February 1823) was an English stained glass painter.

Biography Pearson was the daughter of Samuel Paterson, a noted London bookseller. Her father also dealt in antique stained glass, and is reported in the 1764 edition of Dossie's Handmaid to the Arts as having set up his own stained glass factory.

Pearson and her husband came to public attention through works shown at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in its exhibitions in 1775-77. The works she showed there were mostly depictions of birds, especially parrots and parakeets. One panel of Lansdowne's set survives at Bowood House. The catalogue of an exhibition held by the Pearsons in 1821 was entitled Celebrated Cartoons of Raphael, and Various Other Beautiful Specimens, by Mr. and Mrs. Pearson, Appointed Painters to Her Majesty, on Glass, in Vitrified Colours, at No. 112, Great Russell-Street, Bloomsbury.

Although the couple usually worked on separate pieces they occasionally collaborated, as on their stained glass copy after Carlo Maratti's Salutation, shown in 1775. A later joint work was one after Guido Reni’s Aurora, shown in London in 1793.

She died on 14 February 1823. and the Corning Museum of Glass. Her copy of The Blacksmith’s Shop by Joseph Wright of Derby, dated 1789, is at Burghley House.