Paul de Lamerie (1688 - 1751) was the best-known Englishsilversmith of his generation. Though his mark raises the market value of silver, his output was large and not all his pieces are outstanding. Lamerie's Huguenot parents had left France following the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685). They initially settled in the United Provinces, where Paul was born, moving to London in 1691. Lamerie is notable for working in the Rococo style from the 1730s.
He opened his shop in 1712 and was appointed goldsmith to George I in 1716.
External link
Paul de Lamerie (http://wwar.com/masters/l/lamerie-paul_de.html)
References
P.A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie, London 1935.
John F. Hayward, Huguenot Silver in England, 1688—1727. London 1959.
DeLamerie was associated with William Hogarth, who had been apprenticed to a silversmith and engraved some outstanding pieces for DeLamerie, including a salver for Sir Robert Walpole in 1727.
DeLamerie is credited with some of the finest and most elaborate silver work of the eighteenth century.
De Sequeyra, Dr. John (1712-1795), Williamsburg physician, was born in London of distinguished Portuguese-Jewish parentage.
They are listed alphabetically with their known marks—424 in all—which are not otherwise indexed.
A detailed history is supported by excellent footnoting and lists (but not illustrations) of some six thousand surviving objects—forty pages of these in the case of Paul Revere alone.
PauldeLamerie, The Work of England's Master Silversmith (1688-1751)
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