Word: silversmithing
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...revolutionary; he wore the scarlet coat of a gentleman, and respected the Crown. He married the daughter of the man who painted murals in St. Paul's, eventually succeeded him as Serjeant-Painter to Kings George II and III. He began life as an apprentice silversmith, wound up with a country house and six servants...
...NORMAN SILVERSMITH...
...Common. Tremont Street, he says, that must be it. But no, there just doesn't seem to be a main street. Aside from the few movie house and stores on one side only, the heart of this city seems bordered by a white-steepled church, a charming silversmith shop, and rows of stately bay-windowed townhouses. Why it's--and then he realizes that he is standing at the heart of the biggest small town in America. No matter what the brochures say about the New Boston, he knows this small town atmosphere instinctively and likes...
...expatriated themselves to study in England and to absorb the classic mastery of Renaissance portraiture. John Singleton Copley was one such, but before he left U.S. shores, he had already put together a masterly portrait gallery of some of his fellow Bostonians. His Portrait of Nathaniel Hard, a famed silversmith and engraver, stares back at the observer with a keen, curious, probing intensity that is uncannily lifelike. As John Adams said of Copley's portraits: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers...
...visitors. Onckelbag's bowl with graceful curved handles is 12 in. wide and is ornamented with a floral design showing a strong Scandinavian influence; inside the base are the Twyford family arms. The porringer was made by Jurian Blanck Jr.. New York's first native-born silversmith. Also on display...