Paul de lamerie biography of michael jackson

London-based silversmith ( – )

Paul Jacques de Lamerie (9 April – 1 August ) was a London-based silversmith.

The Victoria and Albert Museum describes him as the "greatest silversmith working in England in the 18th century".^[2] He was being referred to as the "King's silversmith" in ^[3] Though his mark raises the market value of silver, his output was large and not all his pieces are outstanding.

The volume of work bearing de Lamerie's mark makes it almost certain that he subcontracted orders to other London silversmiths before applying his own mark.

Early and private life

De Lamerie was born in 's-Hertogenbosch in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands).

He was the son of a minor French nobleman, Paul Souchay de la Merie, a Huguenot who left France following the Edict of Fontainebleau in His father became an officer in the army of William III of Orange and moved to London in during the Glorious Revolution but died a pauper in

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