English Furniture – What Do You Know? Test Your Knowledge!
The creation of fine furniture depends upon its requirements for social gatherings and entertainment its design reflecting changing conditions and modes of life
George II
Mallett at London & New York – 150+ Years of Antiques & Art
Mallett, of London and New York started 2016 with an exhibition at their New York gallery of fine eighteenth century English furniture, clocks and decorations
Georgian Furniture – Exotic Timbers & Classical Style
The case of a George III regulator clock at Martyn Cook Antiques made Carolyn McDowall reflect on timbers used in the Georgian era of English furniture history
18C English Gentleman’s Furniture – Style Nurturing The Soul
Eighteenth century English gentlemen believed the character of the master of a house can be judged by the manner in which it is arranged decorated and furnished
The English Georgian Era – Monarchs Middling People & Mozart
English Georgian era (1714 – 1830) from monarchs to middling people and music of Mozart was a great gaze that began on horseback and ended in a railway carriage
Mountebank, Quack or Medico – In Stuart & Hanoverian England
Mountebanks abounded in Queen Anne’s England. One remedy was as fatal as another. Quacks were innumerable and neither was hampered by any type of ethical, or moral code.
Private and Public – George III A Model of Propriety
When King George II died in October 1760 and an 18 year old King George III came to the throne the first Hanoverian (German) monarch to be born in England and to speak English at Court as his first language, (not French, the lingua franca used by his father and…
Prejudice and Pride
That the first two Hanoverian Georges disliked England was neither here nor there. George 1 calmed Hanoverian fears of the English chopping off his head by saying ‘I have nothing to fear – for the king killers are all my friends’. When George II succeeded in 1727 visiting Swiss Protestant,…
Sensibility and Sense
The Georgian era in England began on horseback and ended in a railway carriage. As to the countryside, where the vast majority of England’s nearly six million people lived, it was mainly vast fields, sprawling common waste, wonderful woodland with bogs and moors being very treacherous places. Much of the…