Born in Denmark in 1870 at Frederiksborg Castle Denmark Arild Rosenkrantz was the son of the Danish minister to Italy.

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 ⓘ.

Claudius Lavergne was among the foremost figures of the mid-nineteenth-century revival of stained glass in France, a painter and critic whose intellectual formation under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and collaboration with Adolphe-Napoléon Didron positioned him at the intersection of academic draughtsmanship, historical research, and religious reform.