Francis Hill Bigelow

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Francis Hill Bigelow (born February 24, 1859 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , † May 17, 1933 ibid) was an American collector and author in the field of handicrafts .

From 1879 until his retirement in 1906 he worked for the textile trading company Howe & Goodwin in Boston . He was engaged in collecting American silver, which in 1906 and 1911 led to exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He inventoried the church silver in the New England states and thereby created a basic reference work for the local silversmiths. He also collected early American furniture.

Publications (selection)

  • Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers. Macmillan, New York 1917, 2nd edition 1925 ( digital version )

literature

  • Colonial furniture: the superb collection of Mr. Francis Hill Bigelow of Cambridge, Mass. Part one ... to be sold by his order ... January seventeenth, etc. Anderson Galleries, New York 1924 (in the foreword to his collections in detail; Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 1933, p. 295.
  • American and English eighteenth century furniture important early American and English silver early American portraits. The Francis Hill Bigelow Collection. Anderson Galleries, American Art Association, New York 1936 ( archive.org ).
  • Patricia E. Kane: Colonial Massachusetts silversmiths and jewelers. A biographical dictionary based on the notes of Francis Hill Bigelow & John Marshall Phillips. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 1998, ISBN 0-89467-077-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bigelow, Francis Hill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American collector and writer in the field of arts and crafts
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1933
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts