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Adrian Bancker (1703 – August 21, 1772), also known as Adriaan or Adrianus Bancker, was a prominent silversmith in New York City.
Bancker was the son of Evert Bancker, third mayor of Albany, New York, and baptized on October 10, 1703 in Albany. He was apprenticed to
File:Punch Bowl MET DP108070.jpg, Punch Bowl, 1750, Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:Tankard MET DP104439.jpg, Tankard, 1731–50, Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:Porringer MET DP158853.jpg, Porringer, 1730-1750, Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:Creampot MET DP154627.jpg, Creampot, 1730–45, Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:Adrian-Bancker-Candlestick.jpg, Candlestick, 1730-1750, Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:Beaker MET DP106788.jpg, Beaker, 1730-1770, Metropolitan Museum of Art
File:Mug Adrian Bancker.jpg, Mug, 1731-1750, Museum of the City of New York
File:Tumbler Adrian Bancker.jpg, Tumbler, 1730, Clark Art Institute
"c. 1735 Adrian Bancker coin silver spoon"
American Silver before sterling Forum.
Sothebys. * ttp://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/b/adbancker6458.html Adrian Bancker by Stefan Bielinski
Caster, c. 1735
by Adrian Bancker, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Adrian Bancker
Clark Art Institute American silversmiths 1703 births 1772 deaths {{US-artist-stub
Adrian Bancker (1703 – August 21, 1772), also known as Adriaan or Adrianus Bancker, was a prominent silversmith in New York City.
Bancker was the son of Evert Bancker, third mayor of Albany, New York, and baptized on October 10, 1703 in Albany. He was apprenticed to Henricus Boelen
Henricus Boelen II (May 5, 1697 - August 27, 1755) was a noted American silversmith active in New York City.
Boelen was born in New York City, the son and apprentice of Dutch immigrant silversmith, Jacob Boelen I, who willed his business to Hen ...
circa 1718 and made a freeman in 1731. In January of either 1728 or 1729 he married Gertrude Elizabeth Van Taerling, the daughter of Jan van Taerling, a former governor of Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
. He was a New York City alderman during the 1730s and 40s, a deacon in the Dutch Church, Commissioner of Fortifications in New York in 1755 and 1756, and from 1733 to 1766 was collector of the South Ward. In 1766 he advertised as being on Bridge Street, near the Exchange. He died in Albany on August 21, 1772.
Bancker's work is collected in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winterthur, the Museum of the City of New York, the Clark Art Institute, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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Further reading
* ''New York Genealogical and Bibliographical Record Devoted to the Interests of American Genealogy and Biography'', New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1869, pages 68–69. * ''American Silversmiths and Their Marks: The Definitive (1948) Edition'', Stephen G. C. Ensko, Courier Corporation, 2012, page 111.External links
"c. 1735 Adrian Bancker coin silver spoon"
American Silver before sterling Forum.
Sothebys. * ttp://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/b/adbancker6458.html Adrian Bancker by Stefan Bielinski
Caster, c. 1735
by Adrian Bancker, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Adrian Bancker
Clark Art Institute American silversmiths 1703 births 1772 deaths {{US-artist-stub