Lawrence Bradford Saint (January 30, 1885 – June 22, 1961) was an American stained glass artist.
His work is most notably featured in the Washington National Cathedral where he served as the head of the stained glass department.
Although never formally trained nor immensely successful commercially, Joseph was a talented artist and continued to paint until he was 76 years old.
When Lawrence was a young boy, the family moved to De Haven, Pennsylvania (now Allison Park), which was very rural in the late 19th century.
After seeing one of these sketches, a stained glass artist offered Saint a job as an apprentice in his studio.
His last year of art school, Saint worked at an Italian mission on the south side of Philadelphia.
Katherine was a graduate of Wellesley College where she had studied art history, so she was very supportive and helpful to Lawrence in his work.
Saint eventually discovered a process to make his own stained glass in his backyard studio.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City filmed an educational video in Saint's studio about stained glass.
Saint was a serious student and scholar of the techniques of these 16th and 17th century masters, and to that end when creating works in their style instead of using commercial oil paints he made his own from scratch using the same materials, pigments, formulas, and manufacturing techniques developed by Dutch masters.
From 1920 to 1933, he was a ruling elder at the Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church, which is located just a short walk from his house and workshop.
Saint's only daughter, Rachel, was a missionary to Peru and later to Ecuador where she was instrumental in reaching the Huaorani tribe with the gospel.