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John of St Albans [de Sancto Omero; de Flandria]
( fl 1249–58). English painter and sculptor. He was Master Carver to Henry III from 1249, when he was in charge of the painting of the King’s wardrobe in Westminster Palace (see LONDON, §V, 3(i)(b)). He was ordered to make a great lectern for the new chapter house at Westminster Abbey (see LONDON, §V, 2(i)) like that in the chapter house at St Albans. In 1251 he was granted a robe of the King’s gift. He received a winter robe on 22 December 1257, when he was described as ‘sculptor of the king’s images’, a title that recognizes the emergence of the specialist figure-sculptor. On 2 May 1258 he was said to have worked long on the King’s ‘candelabrum’. Lethaby plausibly suggested that he would have been the master sculptor for the lost imagery of the north transept portal of Westminster Abbey, and Noppen has attributed the censing angels of the south transept triforium spandrels to him. John may have been one of the leading sculptors involved in the forging of a new style in which the influence of Wells Cathedral is modified in the light of contemporary French imagery.
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