Silversmiths Silversmiths Dru Drury ( February 4, 1725 – January 15, 1804) was a British entomologist, one of the foremost of his time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dru Drury"
Georg Jensen ( 1866 - 1935) was an important Danish silversmith and designer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georg Jensen"
Paul de Lamerie ( 1688 - 1751) was the best-known English silversmith 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul de Lamerie"
Paul Revere ( January 1, 1735 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith of French descent and a patriot in the American Revolutionary War. Immortalized after his death for his role as a messenger in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Revere was a prosperous and well-known craftsman who was born in the class of tradesmen yet yearned to advance to the class of gentleman. He served as an officer in one of the most disastrous campaigns of the war, a role for which he was later exonerated. After the war, he was early to recognize the potential for large-scale manufacturing of metal goods and is considered by some historians to be the prototype of the American industrialist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Revere"
Porter Blanchard ( 1886- 1973) was a famous silversmith living and working in Pacoima, California in the United States. He is considered to be part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His daughter, Alice, married Lewis Wise who conducted business as Porter Blanchard Silversmiths (Calabasas, California). After 1955, all of Porter Blanchard flatware was made at the Calabasas shop, while the holloware was made at his Pacoima home. Many of his papers including photographs of his shop are collected in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. His daughter, Becca, married Allan Adler, born 1916 of Los Angeles, who continued designing as a silversmith in that tradition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Porter Blanchard"
Reed & Barton is a prominent silversmithing company based out of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, USA. They are internationally-acclaimed for their fine quality silver products, mostly silverware. They have produced many varieties of silver products since 1824 when Henry G. Reed and Charles E. Barton took over the failing pewter works of Isaac Babbitt. During the American Civil War, they produced much of the weapons for Union Army soldiers and officers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Reed & Barton"
Ronald Senungetuk (b. 1933) is an Inupiat artist originally from Wales, Alaska who works primarily in wood and metal. He is a sculptor and silversmith and is known for his abstractions of animal figures. He trained at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology and in Oslo, Norway, on a Fulbright Fellowship at Statens Handværks og Kunstindustriskole. He and his wife, Turid, an accomplished silversmith, live in Homer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ronald Senungetuk"
A Silversmith is a person who works with silver. Silversmiths not only work with silver, but with other metals as well to make jewellery and other items. Silversmiths specialise in the use of silver though, and it is the principal metal with which they work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Silversmith"
William Spratling ( September 22, 1900 - August 7, 1967) was an American-born silversmith and artist, best known for his influence on 20th Century Mexican silver design. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Spratling"
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