Victor Noble Rainbird

Victor Noble Rainbird (12 December 1887 – 8 March 1936) was a painter, stained glass artist and illustrator.

On 15 July 1916, Rainbird married Elizabeth Kirkley at York Registry Office,[2] whilst he was a Lance Corporal (38539) in the 6th Northumberland Fusiliers.

After the war he left as Corporal in the Durham Light Infantry (46585)[3] and practised as a professional artist in North Shields and exhibited works at the Artists of the Northern Counties exhibitions at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and also at the Royal Academy.

He made several trips to France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and a large proportion of his work is of continental subjects, impressions of Rouen, Amiens, Dieppe or Dutch fisherfolk.

However, in 2014 a fan of Rainbird found two of his missing stained glass windows in Trinity Methodist Church in Allendale, Northumberland.