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Heaton, Butler & Bayne (1855-1900)

Heaton, Butler & Bayne

London; stained glass manufacturers, decorators of interiors and furniture (fl.1855-c.1900)

The firm was founded in 1855 as stained glass manufacturers and decorators in Garrick Street, Covent Garden by Clement Heaton (1824-82) and J Butler (1830-1913), and joined by R. T. Bayne in 1862. Heaton collaborated with C. L. Eastlake painting a cabinet illustrated in the latter’s Hints on Household Taste (1868), which was exhibited in Paris 1867 and probably made by the Art Furniture Co. The firm were reputedly makers (more likely decorators) of a Gothic revival dresser cabinet, c. 1868, designed by Charles Locke Eastlake (illus. in a Hill House advertisement in the The Decorative Arts Society Journal, 2016). Clement Heaton was involved with the decoration of much of Charles Eastlake’s and the Art Furniture Co. furniture and, along with A. W. Blomfield, designed portieres and curtains for this firm. In 1882 Heaton’s son, Clement John, succeeded his father but left the firm in 1885. He was involved with the Century Guild before moving to Switzerland, where he set up a stained glass and enamels studio, later moving to USA. In the 20th century the firm was controlled by the Bayne family; the company archives were sold off in the 1970s.

Sources: Gere & Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design.  From Pugin to Mackintosh (1993); Meyer, Great Exhibitions. London, New York, Paris, Philadelphia. 1851-1900 (2006); The Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present (2016).