Tag Archives: William of Orange

Paul de Lamerie

Posted on 1st August 2013 by Jack Plane

Paul de Lamerie died on the 1st of August 1751. Considered the greatest silversmith in Britain during the eighteenth-century, De Lamerie was actually born in the Dutch Republic in 1688. His Huguenot father fled religious persecution in France in 1685, … Continue reading →

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The Glorious Revolution

Posted on 11th December 2012 by Jack Plane

On the 11th of December 1688, King James II of England and Ireland abdicated. James was widely despised as a Roman Catholic and for his alliances with France’s (Catholic) King Louis XIV. Ann Killigrew, James II, circa 1685. The requisite … Continue reading →

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Furniture Brasses

Posted on 5th August 2012 by Jack Plane

In the early seventeenth-century, furniture fittings – handles, hasps, hinges and locks – were wrought from iron by black- and whitesmiths; often with surprising finesse. Whitesmiths also produced tinned iron fittings which, when new, would have shone like silver, but … Continue reading →

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