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Brookshaw, George (bap. 1751, d. 1823), cabinet-maker and decorative painter
Lucy Wood
Brookshaw, George (bap. 1751, d. 1823), cabinet-maker and decorative painter, was baptized at St Philip's Church, Birmingham, on 10 July 1751, one of three children of George Brookshaw (b. c.1722) and his wife, Mary Hawkes (b. c.1723); his elder brother, the engraver ...
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Brown, Ford Madox (1821–1893)
Maker: Ford Madox Brown
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Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) self-portrait, 1877 courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums. Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop. Photograph: Katya Kallsen © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Brown, Ford Madox (1821–1893), painter and designer
Tim Barringer
Brown, Ford Madox (1821–1893), painter and designer, was born at Calais, France, on 16 April 1821, the son of Ford Brown (d. 1842) and his wife, Caroline (d. 1839), the daughter of Tristram Maries Madox, of an old Kent yeoman family. ...
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Bullock, George (1784/5–1818), sculptor and cabinet-maker
Clive Wainwright
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Bullock, George (1784/5–1818), sculptor and cabinet-maker, was the fourth son of James Bullock and his second wife, Sibylla, of Bristol, the owners of a travelling waxworks. His elder brother, William Bullock, became an artist, naturalist, explorer, and museum proprietor; a sister, Mary Ann...
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Carter, Ronald Louis [Ron] (1926–2013), furniture designer
Lesley Jackson
Carter, Ronald Louis [Ron] (1926–2013), furniture designer, was born on 3 June 1926 at 87 Eastwood Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, the son of Harry Victor Carter (1889–1966), travelling salesman, and his wife, Ruth, née Allen, otherwise Allensen, dressmaker, both originally from Wales. Having shown early promise in craft, he went to ...
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Chippendale, Thomas (bap. 1718, d. 1779), cabinet-maker and designer
James Lomax
Chippendale, Thomas (bap. 1718, d. 1779), cabinet-maker and designer, was baptized on 5 June 1718 in the parish church of Otley, a small market town in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, the only child of John Chippindale (bap. 1690, d. 1768), joiner, and his first wife, ...
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Cobb, John (c. 1715–1778), cabinet-maker and upholsterer
Geoffrey Beard
Cobb, John (c. 1715–1778), cabinet-maker and upholsterer, is presumably the person of that name put as apprentice in 1729 to Tim Money, a Norwich upholsterer (Boyd MSS). The Norfolk connection is feasible on account of Cobb's bequeathing in 1778 the interest realized on ...
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Darly, Matthias (c. 1720–1780), designer and printseller
Timothy Clayton
Darly, Matthias (c. 1720–1780), designer and printseller, is of obscure origins: nothing is known of his parents or his early life. In 1735 he was apprenticed to the clockmaker Umfraville Sampson, implying that he was probably born about 1720. In 1749 he was one of several printsellers rounded up by the government for questioning about several satirical prints which ridiculed the ...
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Darly, Matthew (c. 1720–1778?)
Maker: Matthew Darly
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Matthew Darly (c. 1720–?1778) self-portrait, pubd 1771 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Ronald Henry Day (1915–2010) by unknown photographer Design Council / University of Brighton Design Archives
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Day, Ronald Henry [Robin] (1915–2010), furniture designer
Lesley Jackson
Day, Ronald Henry [Robin] (1915–2010), furniture designer, was born on 25 May 1915 at 43 Oxford Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the second of four sons of Arthur Thomas Day, police constable, and his wife, Mary Ann, formerly Colgrove, née Shersby. His upbringing in the furniture-making town of ...
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Duffy, (Anthony) Brian Christopher (1933–2010), photographer
Philip Carter
Duffy, (Anthony) Brian Christopher (1933–2010), photographer, was born on 15 June 1933 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith, London, the eldest child in the family of three sons and one daughter of Patrick Francis Duffy, furniture dealer's clerk and cabinet maker, and his wife, ...
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Ercolani, Lucian Randolph (1888–1976), furniture designer and manufacturer
Anita McConnell
Ercolani, Lucian Randolph (1888–1976), furniture designer and manufacturer, was born on 8 May 1888 at Sant' Angelo in Vado, in the Marche, Italy, the eldest son of Abdon Ercolani, a picture framer, and his wife, a dressmaker. He was left in the care of his grandmother when his parents moved to ...
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Garner, Thomas (1839–1906), architect and designer
Paul Waterhouse
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Garner, Thomas (1839–1906), architect and designer, was born at Wasperton Hill, Wasperton, Warwickshire, on 12 August 1839, the son of Thomas Garner (1795–1880), farmer, and his wife, Louisa Savage (b. c.1815). Brought up in country surroundings, he acquired as a boy a love of riding and a knowledge of horsemanship which he retained through life. In 1856, at the age of seventeen, he entered as a pupil the office of ...
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Gillow family (per. c. 1730–c. 1830), cabinet-makers and upholsterers
Susan E. Stuart
Gillow family (per. c. 1730–c. 1830), cabinet-makers and upholsterers, came to prominence with Richard [ii] Gillow (1733–1811), the son of Robert [i] Gillow 1702/3–1772 [see below], the founder of the firm. Gillows's reputation as one of the leading British cabinet-making firms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was established by contributions from some ten members of the family over three generations. The business was established about 1728; in 1813 probably for both economic and social reasons, the ...
