japanner

After leaving school he became a japanner, eventually leaving to set up his own company.

Japanner John Pyrke relocates to Usk from London.

John Marston was apprenticed to the Jeddo Works of Wolverhampton as a japanner (metal lacquerer).

Being a son of a japanner, he received some artistic training and indeed started his artistic career painting flowers which were a popular decoration for japanned ware.

He was born in Birmingham to John and Sarah Bedford, and followed his father into the iron trade to become a japanner in 1748.

At the age of 15 Bisset obtained an apprenticeship with a Birmingham japanner, and by 1785 was listed in a local trade directory as a painter of miniatures.

They acquired the workshops of Henry Clay, Japanner to George III and the Prince of Wales, in 1816.

Daniel Bond's career started as a painter and japanner in Boulton's Soho Manufactory, but he is recorded as exhibiting landscapes at the Society of Artists in London by 1761.

Wolverhampton archival materials and other local documents identify Joseph Barney as a son of Joseph Barney Snr., a local japanner, and, from 1780-1802, a partner of the Barney & Ryton, japanners.

In 1851 at age 15, however, John was sent to Wolverhampton to be apprenticed to Richard Perry, Son & Co., tinsmiths and japanners, at the Jeddo Works of Wolverhampton as a japanner (metal lacquerer).