Jasperware

The term Jasperware or Jasper Ware is used for a type of pottery first developed Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s. It is usually described as stoneware, although some authorities describe it as a type of porcelain. It was named after the mineral jasper which was thought to be the critical component of the clay,...

Jean-Baptiste Delettrez

Jean-Baptiste Delettrez (Antoine) (1816–1887) was a celebrated French clockmaker in 19th-century Paris. The clockmaking company ‘Brocot and Delettrez’ was established in 1851 by Delettrez and Achille Brocot (the son of the renowned clockmaker Louis-Gabriel Brocot). They specialised in developing clocks based...

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 –1805) was a French painter. He arrived in Paris in 1750 after training in Lyon, and occasionally attended the Academie Royale His debut at the Salon in 1755 was triumphant but he aspired to being known as a historical painter rather than a ‘genre’ painter which was considered to be...

Jeanselme

Maison Jeanselme were French cabinetmakers who supplied furniture to Louis Philippe and Napoleon III. They were active between 1824 and 1930. The firm of Jeanselme was founded by Charles-Joseph-Marie Jeanselme in Paris in 1824. It was taken over by Auguste Godin in 1871 , and on his retirement it was known as A....

Johann P F Preiss

Johann Philipp Ferdinand Preiss (1882 – 1943) was a German sculptor who became one of the leading lights in the Art Deco movement. He was apprenticed to the carver Philipp Willman at the age of 15 after both his parents died and lived with his family. He travelled to Rome and Paris in 1901. He […]

John & Humphrey Payne

John & Humphrey Payne were silversmiths and jewellers operating in the first part of the 18th Century in London. They were advertised as making and selling silver and gold plate, as well as trading in second hand plate. They also made watches and traded in secondhand watches. Humphrey Payne is listed as working in...

John Benson

Was a renowned English clock maker who lived and worked in Whitehaven in the 18th century. In his own words (taken from an advertisement in 1776) he made ‘all sorts of Plain, Repeating, Musical and Astronomical Clocks’. Most of his surviving specimens are brass dial 8 day ‘long case’ (more colloquially...

John Bridge

John Bridge was the co-founder in 1787 (with Philip Rundell) of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, goldsmith, jewellers and royal retailers to the Prince Regent. Their London shop on Ludgate Hill in London had a huge stock of new and old silver, watches, jewellery and ‘objects of virtue’. Employing some of the best...

John Edwards III

John Edwards III – was a silversmith working in London from 1788 when he entered his first mark as a plateworker. He was in a short partnership with William Frisbee and they entered a joint mark together in 1791, but by 1792 he’d entered another mark in his own name alone. As a partner of […]

John Ferneley Junior

John Ferneley Junior (1815-1862) was the son of the important sporting painter John E. Ferneley and became a sporting artist in his own right. His father was probably his sole teacher and took him on trips to London, Durham and York. His first work ‘Whipping-in’ was published in 1833 in the New Sporting...

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Jasperware

Jean-Baptiste Delettrez

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jeanselme

Johann P F Preiss

John & Humphrey Payne

John Benson

John Bridge

John Edwards III

John Ferneley Junior

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