Philip Clissett
Philip Clissett (born 8 January 1817,
Passmore Edwards Settlement at Mary Ward House, 5 Tavistock Place, London by the architects A. Dunbar Smith and C. Cecil Brewer.[1]
The following is a list of more or less well-known people who are known to have had Clissett's ladderback chairs amongst the furnishings in their home:[1]
Charles Canning Winmill
(probable).
By the late 1890s, Clissett was well-known enough for his portrait, by Maxwell Balfour, to appear in a prestigious arts journal, The Quarto.[6]
Clissett made chairs in the West Midlands tradition,bodger but this is incorrect as he made entire chairs rather than just turned parts.
Clissett's chairs are now widely collected, and can be found in various museums and collections, including:
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Geffrye Museum, London
- William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, London
- 7 Hammersmith Terrace, London
- Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
- New Walk Museum, Leicester
- Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Worcestershire County Museum, Hartlebury, Worcestershire
- Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, Hereford
- Butcher Row House Museum, Ledbury, Herefordshire
- Rodmarton Manor, nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire
- Marchmont House, nr Greenlaw, Berwickshire
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
- Crab Tree Farm, Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA
References
- ^ a b c Rowell, T.A. "Philip Clissett, Chairmaker 1817-1913". Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ ISBN 1-85149-023-X.
- ^ Carruthers, Annette (1994). Good Citizens Furniture: the Arts and Crafts Collection at Cheltenham. Cheltenham: Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. p. 81.
- ISBN 0-86299-991-X.
- ^ Griffith, David W.J. (1954). The Cotswold Tradition in a Contemporary Workshop. Coopers Hill, Englefield Green, Surrey: Shoreditch Training College (dissertation).
- ^ "The Quarto, v4 (1898), p81". Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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