born April 9, 1688, 's Hertogenbosch, Neth.
died Aug. 1, 1751, London, Eng.
Dutch-born British silversmith.
His Huguenot parents had left France in the early 1680s and settled in England by 1691. After an apprenticeship with a London goldsmith, he registered his mark and opened a shop in 1713. Early in his career he made simple vessels such as tankards and teapots in an unadorned Queen Anne style ; later he used more ornamentation. By the 1730s he had established his own version of the Rococo style , seen in a 1737 cup with handles in the form of snakes.