Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907)

Painted walls, ceilings and woodwork in churches during the 1860s before establishing his own stained glass company, C. E. Kempe & Co. in London in 1869. Although he was not a trained artist, he had designed windows for Clayton & Bell and his ideas were interpreted by the members of his studio. His methods were influenced by sixteenth-century work from Flanders and Northern Germany.

Kempe Society webpage.

Further reading

Margaret Stavridi, Master of Glass: Charles Eamer Kempe 1837-1907 (Hatfield: John Taylor Books, 1988).

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000).

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The Crucifixion with Panels from the Seven Sacraments restorer: Charles Eamer Kempe about 1500, restored in 1876 Church of St Tyrnog, Llandyrnog, Denbighshire east wall of the north nave

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