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....
Frederick Scott Archer
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1813 — 1857
Frederick Archer was an Englishman who apprenticed as a bullion dealer and silversmith. He moved...
David Austin Sayre
United States
Date of Birth: 1793 — 1870
David Austin Sayre (March 12, 1793 - September, 1870) was a prominent silversmith, banker and...
Juana Barraza
Mexico
Date of Birth: Dec 27, 1957
Juana Dayanara Barraza Samperio is a Mexican serial killer known as "La Mataviejitas" (The...
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...
Richard Beard
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1801 — 1885
Richard Beard was an entrepreneur who profitably established himself in the coal trade in...
Ross J. Beaty, C.M.
Canada
Date of Birth: 1951 — -
Throughout his 48-year career, Ross Beaty has been a leader in the international mining and...
Charles Harper Bennett
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1840 — 1927
Charles Bennett was an English photographic pioneer. He improved the gelatine silver process...
Robert Jefferson Bingham
United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 1824 — 1870
Robert Bingham was an English pioneer photographer, mainly active in France, making portraits...
Henry Birks
Canada
Date of Birth: 1879
Birks was by far the largest and most influential Canadian silversmith in the 20th century....
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
France
Date of Birth: 1802 — 1872
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard was a cloth merchant from Lille, France who learned the calotype...
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...
Antoine Claudet
France
Date of Birth: 1797 — 1867
Antoine Claudet was a French businessman who moved to London to open a glass warehouse. The...
Henry Comstock
Canada
Date of Birth: 1820 — 1870
Henry Tompkins (or Thomas) Paige Comstock (1820–1870) was an Canadian miner after whom the...
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
France
Date of Birth: 1787 — 1851
Louis Daguerre, was a French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of...
Marcus Daly
United States
Date of Birth: 1841 — 1900
Marcus Daly (December 5, 1841 – November 12, 1900) was an Irish-born American businessman...
Henry Lawrence Vincent Day
United States
Date of Birth: 1902 — 1985
Hank Day (1902-1985) was born in in Spokane, Washington, to Helen Dwyer and Harry Lawrence Day,...
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...