 Dunstan worked as a silversmith and in the scriptorium while he was living at Glastonbury . It is thought likely that he was the artist who drew the well @-@ known image of Christ with a small kneeling monk beside him in the Glastonbury <unk> , " one of the first of a series of outline drawings which were to become a special feature of Anglo @-@ Saxon art of this period . " Dunstan became famous as a musician , illuminator , and metalworker . Lady <unk> , King Æthelstan 's niece , made Dunstan a trusted adviser and on her death she left a considerable fortune to him . He used this money later in life to foster and encourage a monastic revival in England . About the same time , his father Heorstan died and Dunstan inherited his fortune as well . He became a person of great influence , and on the death of King Æthelstan in 940 , the new King , Edmund , summoned him to his court at Cheddar and made him a minister . 
