Edward Holmes Baldock (1777–1845) was a prominent London furniture dealer to the Royal Family, father of
Edward Holmes Baldock.
He was first listed in the London trade directories in 1805. That listing had him operating out of No.7 Hanway Street in London, where he was described as selling "china and glass". An updated listing in 1821 described his business as "an antique furniture and ornamental furniture dealer", and in 1826 as a buyer and seller of "china, cabinets, screens, bronzes etc".
Between 1832 and 1837 he sold earthenware and glass products to
William IV, and upon the ascendancy of
Queen Victoria
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in 1837, sold china until his death in 1845.
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marchand-mercier
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Dominique Daguerre Dominique Daguerre was a Parisian ''marchand-mercier'' who was in partnership from 1772 with Simon-Philippe Poirier, an arbiter of taste and the inventor of furniture mounted with Sèvres porcelain plaques; Daguerre assumed Poirier's business at '' ...
and
Simon-Philippe Poirier.
[Beard, Geoffrey; Gilbert, Christopher Dictionary of English furniture makers, 1660-1840 ]Furniture History Society
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Background
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, 1986
Personal life
He was the father of
Edward Holmes Baldock (1812–1875), a British Conservative Party politician, and of Mary Frances Baldock, wife of the philatelist
.
References
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British furniture
1777 births
1845 deaths
English antiques experts
Art dealers from London