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.
The only known image of William Weston Young, in the Quaker silhouette style
Frontispiece of Young's 1835, featuring a depiction of Neath Castle
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
William Weston Young
…before its completion in February 1820 in the nave of Margam Abbey Church, Margam, Glamorganshire. In early 1814, Young became the major investor in William Billingsley and Samuel Walker's venture; the Nantgarw Pottery, Nantgarw, Glamorganshire. Billingsley and Walker, through their prior ties with Flight, Barr & Barr…
The Prentice Plate
Plate, c. 1820
Pinxton Cream Jug, about 1800
Plate perhaps painted at William Billingsley's decorative workshop in Mansfield