3475727 Angel of Death, Church of St John the Evangelist, Birtley, 1873 (Cottier & Co) by Maris, Matthew (1839-1917); St John Church, Birtley, UK; (add.info.: Birtley, St John, C&C, M Maris, Angel of Death, 1873. Daniel Cottier (1836-91) of Cottier & Co of Regent Street. Dutch artist, Matthew Maris (1839??917), who arrived in London to work for Cottier around 1872 has been credited as the designer of \'some of Cottier\'s most successful windows of the 1870s\'. The window is based on the poem ???he reaper and the flowers??by Henry Longfellow. "It was an angel visited the green earth and took the flowers away, 27 June 1872" ); 穢 Alastair Carew-Cox; English, out of copyright.