George Adams
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1840 — 1883
William Chawner II's son-in-law who took over Chawner & Co. with his mother-in-law Mary Chawner....
David Austin Sayre
United States
Date of Birth: 1793 — 1870
David Austin Sayre (March 12, 1793 - September, 1870) was a prominent silversmith, banker and...
Hester Bateman
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1708 — 1794
The most famous woman silversmith, Bateman was the widow of John Bateman. After his death in...
Henry Birks
Canada
Date of Birth: 1879
Birks was by far the largest and most influential Canadian silversmith in the 20th century....
Mario Buccellati
Italy
Date of Birth: 1891 — 1965
Founded in 1919 when Mario Buccellati took over Milan's Beltrami & Beltrami, Buccellati is known...
William Chawner
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1797 — 1834
Flatware-making is one of the sub-specialties of silversmithing. In the 18th and 19th centuries,...
Charles Christofle
France
Date of Birth: 1805 — 1863
Charles Christofle founded the company that bears his name in 1830. Originally a jeweler, he...
Paul de Lamerie
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1688 — 1751
One of the leading English silversmiths in the first half of the 1700s, Paul de Lamerie was...
George Richards Elkington
Elkington & Co.
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1801 — 1865
George Richards Elkington was the son of a Birmingham spectacle manufacturer who apprenticed to...
Jabez Gorham
Gorham Manufacturing Company
United States
Date of Birth: 1792 — 1869
Established in 1831 in Rhode Island, as a coin-silver flatware and jewelery manufacturer, Gorham...
George Guess, aka Sequoyah
United States
Date of Birth: 1775 — 1843
Sequoyah was the creator of the Cherokee writing system. Believed to be the son of a Virginia...
Robert Hennel
Hennel & Sons
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1741 — 1811
Hennell of Bond Street is one of London's oldest silversmiths and jewellers. It was founded by...
David Hennell
Mappin & Webb
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1712 — 1785
The Hennell family silver company is a testament to the enduring appeal of fine craftsmanship...
John Samuel Hunt
Hunt & Roskell
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1785 — 1865
Hunt & Roskell, an English firm of manufacturing and retail jewellers and silversmiths, was...
Georg Jensen
Denmark
Date of Birth: 1866 — 1935
Born in 1866, Jensen was the son of a knife grinder in the town of Raadvad just to the north of...
Jonathan Mappin
Mappin & Webb
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1775
Mappin & Webb is a leading retailer of fine silverware and jewellery based in London and is...
Nathaniel Mills
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1784 — 1843
Nathaniel Mills & Sons were 19th century Birmingham silversmiths who excelled in making silver...
Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot
House of Odiot
France
Date of Birth: 1763 — 1850
The House of Odiot was founded in 1690 by Jean-Baptiste Gaspard Odiot but rose to prominence...
Carl Poul Peterson
Canada
Date of Birth: 1895 — 1977
According to his family history, Carl Poul Petersen apprenticed at Georg Jensen in Denmark...
Jean Puiforcat
France
Date of Birth: 1897 — 1945
Jean Puiforcat served in WWI. After the war, he apprenticed as a silversmith and a designer. He...