Patrick Reyntiens

Nicholas Patrick Reyntiens OBE (; 11 December 1925 – 25 October 2021) was a British stained-glass artist, described as "the leading practitioner of stained glass in this country."

Personal life Reyntiens was born in December 1925 at 68 Cadogan Square, Knightsbridge, London SW1, of Belgian extraction. and joined the Scots Guards, with whom he served from 1943 to 1947. In the 1950s, Reyntiens and Bruce bought Burleighfield House,

Reyntiens died on 25 October 2021, at the age of 95.

Career

Stained glass Reyntiens began his career as assistant to the stained glass artist Jozef Edward Nuttgens (1892–1982), who lived and worked at Pigotts Hill, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Their notable works together include the Baptistery window of the new Coventry Cathedral (1957–61) and the windows of the lantern tower of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (1963–67).

Reyntiens' solo works include windows for St Mary's church, Hound (1958–59), St Michael and All Angels Church, Marden (1962), the Church of the Good Shepherd, Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire (circa 1962–64), St Anselm's Church, Southall (1968), All Saints' parish church, Hinton Ampner (1970), the Great Hall of Christ Church, Oxford (1985), Southwell Minster (1996), St Andrews Church, Scole and Washington National Cathedral in the USA. In 2011, John made a documentary film about his father's life and work, From Coventry to Cochem, the Art of Patrick Reyntiens.

Art education From 1963 until 1976, Reyntiens and Bruce, a painter, operated a small art education centre at their Buckinghamshire home, Burleighfield House, which later became the Reyntiens Trust.

For a decade, Reyntiens was Head of Fine Art at Central School of Art and Design. He retired from the post in order to return to his own stained glass work.