Paul de Lamerie
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Paul Jacques de Lamerie was a London-based silversmith. The Victoria and Albert Museum describes him as the "greatest silversmith working in England in the 18th century". He was being referred to as t
Cup and Cover, made by Paul de Lamerie, 1736–7 Victoria and Albert Museum no. 819-1890
Rococo coffee jug, 1738
Silver Candlesticks by Paul de Lamerie. Hallmarked London, circa 1747-49
Lamerie's maker's mark for 1732 on the underside of a Britannia gauge waiter
Robert Walpole
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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain, ser
Paul de Lamerie
…his workshops being in one of the 48 properties he owned in the area. His customers included Tsarinas Anna and Catherine, Count Aleksey Bobrinsky, Sir Robert Walpole, the Earl of Ilchester, the Earl of Thanet, Viscount Tyrconnel, the Duke of Bedford, and other members of the English aristocracy. He also worked for…
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, c. 1740
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford by Arthur Pond
Speaker Arthur Onslow calling upon Sir Robert Walpole to Speak in the House of Commons by William Hogarth
Walpole with his secretary, Henry Bilson-Legge, by Stephen Slaughter