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LOCK, MATTHIAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 841 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOCK, See also:MATTHIAS , See also:English 18th-See also:century See also:furniture designer and See also:cabinet-maker. The See also:dates of his See also:birth and See also:death are unknown; but he was a See also:disciple of See also:Chippendale, and subsequently of the See also:Adams, and was possibly in See also:partnership with See also:Henry See also:Copeland (q.v.). During the greater See also:part of his See also:life he belonged to that flamboyant school which derived its See also:inspiration from See also:Louis XV. See also:models; but when he See also:fell under the See also:influence of See also:Robert See also:Adam he absorbed his manner so completely that it is often difficult to distinguish between them, just as it is sometimes easy to confound Lock's See also:work with the weaker efforts of Chippendale. Thus from being extravagantly See also:rococo he progressed to a See also:simple ordered classicism. His published designs are not equal to his See also:original drawings, many of which are preserved in the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum, See also:South See also:Kensington, while the pieces them-selves are often bolder and more solid than is suggested by the author's representations of them. He wasia See also:clever craftsman and holds a distinct See also:place among the See also:minor furniture designers of the second See also:half of the 18th century. Among his See also:works, some of which were issued in See also:conjunction with Copeland, are: A New See also:Drawing See also:Book of Ornaments (n. d.); A New Book of Ornaments (1768) ; A New Book of See also:Pier Frames, Ovals, Giran oles, Tables, &c. (1769) ; and A New Book of Foliage (1769).

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