William Billingsley (artist)
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William Billingsley was an influential painter of porcelain in several English porcelain factories, who also developed his own recipe for soft-paste porcelain, which produced beautiful results but a v
The Prentice Plate
Plate, c. 1820
Pinxton Cream Jug, about 1800
Plate perhaps painted at William Billingsley's decorative workshop in Mansfield
William Weston Young
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William Weston Young was an English Quaker entrepreneur, artist, botanist, wreck-raiser, surveyor, potter, and inventor of the firebrick.
William Billingsley (artist)
…porcelain pottery. Billingsley and Walker had brought with them a total of £250 to invest in their project and by January 1814, the Quaker entrepreneur William Weston Young had already become the major share-holder in their venture. It is assumed Young was acquainted with Billingsley through a mutual friend, and fellow…
The only known image of William Weston Young, in the Quaker silhouette style
Frontispiece of Young's 1835, featuring a depiction of Neath Castle