Artist

(b. 1744, Neuwied, d. 1820, Paris)

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German cabinetmaker. He was a Paris-based cabinetmaker whose neoclassical-style furniture, often set with lacquer or decorative panels, found favour at several European royals courts, including George IV's (1762-1830). Born in Germany in 1744, Weisweiler emigrated to Paris after his training and there became a maître-ébéniste (master cabinetmaker) in 1778. He was employed by the marchand-mercier (dealer) Dominique Daguerre, who sold his work to patrons across Europe, including Marie-Antoinette and the King of Naples. George, Prince of Wales (later George IV) acquired several pieces of Weisweiler's furniture for Carlton House, his private residence, in the late 1780s. Weisweiler occasionally combined his restrained, neoclassical-style furniture with more exuberant pietre dure panels or Sèvres porcelain plaques. Pietre dure (literally 'hard stones') is a technique perfected in late sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Prague, in which coloured stones are inset to create two- or three-dimensional images. Weisweiler survived the French Revolution and supplied furniture to the Bonaparte family before his death in Paris in 1820. //

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Category	Artists
Artists by letter	W
Artist nationality	French