J Dixon & Sons

J Dixon & Sons – were one of the major British manufacturers of silverware, both plate and sterling silver, electroplated Britannia metal, electroplated nickel silver and precision tools. They were also famous for their whistles. Established in 1806 in Sheffield and trading until 1976, they produced a wide range of...

J.C.Vickery

J.C.Vickery were gold and silversmith retailers, based in Regent Street, London in the early part of the 20th century. The firm was founded by John Collard Vickery and his partner Arthur Thomas Hobbes when they bought out William Griggs a stationer and bookseller with premises on Regent Street, London in 1890. They...

Jacobean

Jacobean strictly describes the period of the reign of King James I of England (who was also James VI of Scotland) from 1603 to 1625, although it has also been used to include the reign of his son Charles I (1625 to 1649) and also right up to and including the reign of James II […]

Jaeger-LeCoultre

Was founded by Antoine LeCoutre in 1833 and is a luxury Swiss watch and clock manufacturer based in Le Sentier, Switzerland. Antoine invented a machine to cut watch pinions from steel in 1833 and as a result founded a small watchmaking workshop in Le Sentier, honing his watchmaking skills enabling him to create...

James Charles Edington

James Charles Edington was a London based silversmith working from Soho in London from 1828 when he entered his first mark. He is listed as a working silversmith in Leicester Square from about 1837 to 1862 and then as a manufacturing silversmith from 1863 to 1873. Although the firm with his name kept trading, it...

James Howden

James Howden was a Scottish watchmaker based in Edinburgh. He was apprenticed as a watchmaker in 1764 at the age of 15 with Alexander Farquharson completing his indenture in 1771 under James Cowan. He then opened his own shop and started what was to become a very successful family clock making and jewellery...

James Le Bas

James Le Bas was an English silversmith who later moved to Dublin in Ireland. Working from 1786 until his death in 1845, his two sons William Robert and Benjamin both worked in the family firm. He started out apprenticed to his father William Le Bas, a noted silversmith. He moved in 1786 to work for […]

James Pradier

A Swiss-born French sculptor, James Pradier (1790–1852) – was best known for his neoclassical style work. Pradier was born in Geneva, but left in 1807 to go and work with his brother Charles-Simon, an engraver, in Paris. He became successful studying under Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in Paris and winning a...

Jane Vivian

Jane Vivian (de Fleury ) ( active 1869-1890 ) was a landscape painter from a family of landscape painters which included her father and brother. She exhibited a number of paintings at the Society of British Artists including views of Venice, Bruges and Rouen. She is best known for her views of Venice. She also...

Japy Freres

Was a French clock and watchmaking firm founded in 1806 by Frédéric Japy with his sons, Pierre, Fritz and Louis, creating the trademark ‘Japy Freres’. (Japy Brothers). Prior to handing over the direction of the business to his sons, Frederic had done much to ‘industrialise’ the production of clocks by...

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J Dixon & Sons

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Jacobean

Jaeger-LeCoultre

James Charles Edington

James Howden

James Le Bas

James Pradier

Jane Vivian

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