James Henry Nixon

James Henry Nixon (1802–1857) was an illustrator and painter during the Victorian period, who worked in the firm Ward and Nixon painting stained glass windows. James Henry Nixon was a protégé of Charles Winston, who praised Nixon's work at Westminster Abbey and Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury. The company Ward and Nixon was followed by Ward and Hughes.

Career The company began in 1836 as Ward and Nixon, when James Henry Nixon (brother of sculptor Samuel Nixon) joined forces with Thomas Ward. Nixon was a student of the painter John Martin.

From 1826 to 1829, Nixon painted a replacement of the stained glass at the medieval parish church of St Neot, Cornwall. After that, Nixon exhibited his works at the Royal Academy from 1830 to 1847. He painted a window at the New Lady chapel in Southwark Cathedral in 1832. Nixon also illustrated the work of Sir Walter Scott (1835). They also created a stained-glass window for St Martin's Church, in Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire, in 1836.

Ward and Nixon's studio was at 67 Frith Street, Soho. Charles Winston wrote: "... the superiority of this work over its contemporaries, both here and abroad, that, had Mr. Nixon done nothing else, it would have been sufficient to entitle him to the respect of those who desire to see the true revival of a neglected and underrated branch of art." His pupil, Henry Hughes, became the partner of Thomas Ward, and the business was renamed Ward and Hughes.

Gallery

Works by Nixon St Mary Denton, Norfolk North-East Lincolnshire, Owston Ferry, Isle of Axholme (1836) two east stained glass windows for St Mary's Church, Eastwell, Kent that represent the events in the history of Christ and Mary (1846). Resurrection windows at Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Redenhall (1846). window for St James' Church, Stert, Wiltshire (1846). windows for the church at Homerton, London (1846). window for Church of St John-at-Hackney (1847). St. Mary, Thorpe, Surrey (1847). St Illogan, Illogan, Cornwall (1847). two eastern windows for the parish church of St. George, Guiana (1848). Chichester Cathedral (1848). St Paul's Church, Shadwell (1848). Church of St John-at-Hackney (1848). windows to Norwich Cathedral (1851). St. Paul's, Shadwell (1851). All Saints Cathedral, Kingston (1852). Glass for St Giles' Catholic Church, Cheadle (1853). Benefield (1853). Windows at St Nicholas Church, Brighton (1854). two memorial windows for Armagh Cathedral (1855). St. Andrews Church, Tur Langton, Leicestershire (1855). east window of Lincoln Cathedral (1855).