William Peckitt

William Peckitt (1731 – 14 October 1795) was an English glass-painter and stained glass maker.

Peckitt worked throughout his life on the maintenance of the medieval glass in York Minster as well as painting new windows there.

[4] He continued these experiments throughout his life and in 1780 he patented an invention "for blending Coloured and Stained Glass".

[1] Although his contributions to the technical development of the craft have been well recognised and documented his draughtsmanship has sometimes been criticised;" his work has little merit in either design or colour".

[5] He attempted to resolve this by employing established draughtsmen such as the Italians Biagio Rebecca and Giovanni Battista Cipriani to draw cartoons for him.