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English: Designed by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, a painter and illustrator employed by the firm of Morris & Company, this stained glass window depicts a full-length seated figure of Saint Matthew with quill pen and inkwell in hand, in the act of writing his Gospel. The money purses and gold coins at his feet are symbolic of his earlier career as a tax collector, which he abandoned to follow Christ. The medieval aesthetic of the window testifies to Burne-Jones' close involvement with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a Romantic-inspired artistic movement that, along with the roughly contemporaneous Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, spearheaded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a trend of rejection of academicism in favor of an embrace of natural forms and earnest emotionality. The window was one of several commissioned in 1909 by Cheadle Royal Hospital near Manchester, England for use in their chapel, which were copies of earlier windows installed in 1873 in the chapel of Jesus College at Cambridge. As seen in the "35 Centuries of Glass" gallery during an April 2022 visit to the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.