Index of Victorian Stained Glass entries.

 
The company began in 1836 as Ward and Nixon, the two worked together for twenty years, exporting windows all over the world. In 1855 they were given the contract for re-glazing of East Window of Lincoln Cathedral. By which time James Nixon started to take less active part in the business and died in 1857.
 
 

Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907) originally trained as a priest, but due to a stammer studied archeticture the main part of which being the 14th century English Gothic, George Bodley. Working for Bodley, Kempe learned the art of decorating church walls and ceilings. However, he became interested in stained glass and studied the art and craft at the studios of Clayton & Bell. By 1866 Kempe was working, with two assistants, as an independent designer in London, and in 1869 unhappy with the quality of the work produced for him, Kempe started his own workshop at Millbrook Place.
 

 
 
In 1834 the London Wine merchant James Powell (1774-1840) bought the small Whitefriars glassworks just off Fleet Street as a business for his sons. Originally unfamiliar with glass production the company experiemented with different techniques and were soon supply patent glass to other leading stained glass companies and designer as well as making stained glass windows of their own.
 
 

Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was born in Calais to English parents and studied art at Antwerp. He joined William Morris' design company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., in 1861. He worked with Morris producing book illustrations and stained glass.
 
Meeting Rossetti and William Holman Hunt in 1848, Brown adopted many of the traits of Pre-Raphaelite painting, and his own work became associated with theirs by both the critics and public. However, he was never actually a member of the brotherhood itself.