William Duesbury (1763–1796), was the owner of
Royal Crown Derby
The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company is the oldest or second oldest remaining English porcelain manufacturer, based in Derby, England (disputed by Royal Worcester, who claim 1751 as their year of establishment). The company, particularly known ...
pottery works.
Biography
Duesbury was a son of
William Duesbury
William Duesbury (1725–1786) was an English Vitreous enamel, enameller, in the sense of a painter of porcelain, who became an important porcelain entrepreneur, founder of the Royal Crown Derby and owner of porcelain factories at Bow porcelai ...
(1725–1786) and the prosperity of the family pottery works (Royal Crown Derby) reached its highest point shortly after he succeeded to them. He took into partnership an Irish miniature-painter
Michael Kean
Michael Kean (died 1823) was an Irish artist. He was a miniature painter, and for a period was owner of the porcelain factory in Derby later known as Royal Crown Derby.
Life
Kean was born in Dublin; he entered the Dublin Society's drawing schools ...
. Duesbury's health broke early, and he died in 1796.
Family
Duesbury and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Edwards, a solicitor of Derby (who remarried the above-mentioned Kean), had three sons, of whom William Duesbury, born in 1787, inherited, but did not take part in the works, which in 1809 were disposed of to
Robert Bloor. The second son, Frederick Duesbury, became a well-known physician in London, and was father of the architect
Henry Duesbury
Henry Duesbury (a relative of the Duesbury family of Royal Crown Derby fame) was the Borough Architect for Derby from 1841 to about 1854. He designed the Derby Guildhall, the Arboretum Square entrance and orangery, and the so-called Crystal Palace ...
.
Notes
References
* endnotes:
**Haslem's ''Old Derby China Manufactory'';
**Jewitt's ''Ceramic Art of Great Britain'';
**Wallis and Bemrose's ''Pottery and Porcelain of Derbyshire''.
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1763 births
1796 deaths
English potters