Florence Camm

Arthurian British Stained Glass Window Design II c. 1900 TW Camm - King Arthur

c. 1900

Florence Camm was a stained glass designer who exhibited 48 times at the Royal Academy and also exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. 

Camm was the daughter of Thomas William Camm, who founded the stained glass business T.W. Camm in High Street Smethwick. From 1892–1911, she studied at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art, which, unusual for the time, encouraged girls to attend the life drawing classes, drawing fully nude female models and partially draped male models, thus explaining Camm’s skill with the human figure. The arts and crafts designer Henry Payne was an influential tutor for Camm, being one of the most influential teachers at the BMSA who was working as a stained glass designer at the time. Following the death of her father, Florence and her brothers, Walter and Robert, took over the family business.