The John Bargrave Collection
Henry Gyles (1646 (bap) - 1709)
Alias Henry Giles [Alias]Glass painter of York and a correspondent of Thoresby who helped procure objects for his collection. According to Lancaster, Henry Gyles was “[A] noted glass-painter of York. In his later years he fell into poverty and ill-health, and there are some piteous letters from him in the second volume of the Correspondence, and later in the present work. There is a portrait of him in Horace Walpole’s “Anecdotes of Painting” (Lancaster 19, n2). Collaborated with Martin Lister working with pigments and coloured glass (Roos 2019, 50). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11824?docPos=3 Relevant locations: Birth place in Micklegate
Death place at Micklegate
Lived at or near Henry Gyles's house and garden
People linked to person: Henry Gyles was a uncle of James Smith (1658-1725)
Henry Gyles was a donor to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
Henry Gyles was a member of York Virtuosi (1670-1683)
Sam Carpenter (-) was a friend of Henry Gyles
George Lumley (-fl. 1719) was a friend of Henry Gyles
Samuel Smith (-1709) was a nephew of Henry Gyles