East Window of King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859). Oil painting on millboard, East Window of King's College, Cambridge by Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859), circa 1832. East window of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge showing the Crucifixion and Judgement of Pilate. Beneath it a Deposition by Daniel da Volterra - possibly by Benjamin West (in a Gothick frame). In 1776 George Romney had been commissioned to paint an altarpiece for King’s College, Cambridge. The commission was never completed since an Italian painting, a Deposition thought to be by Daniele da Volterra from the deuc d'Orleans collection and given by Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825) in 1780 was placed in the chapel instead. The high altar was destroyed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and originally stood where the present altar now stands and which was executed from a design by T. Gower. The windows in the Chapel, except the west window, were glazed with stained glass between 1515 and 1531 by Barnard Flower, Henry VIII’s glazier and four other glaziers who were resident in London. The east window was probably made by the Netherlander glazier Galyon Hone and depicts the Crucifixion and the Judgement of Pilate. The cost of the windows is said to have been defrayed or partly defrayed out of the fine paid by Richard Nix, Bishop of Norwich (1447?-1535), in consequence of infringing the Act of Praemunire in which he became involved in the time of Henry VIII. Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire (Accredited Museum)