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See also:MEISSONIER, JUSTE AUR$LE (1695-1750), See also:French See also:gold-See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
smith, sculptor, painter, architect, and See also:furniture designer, was See also:born at See also:Turin, but became known as a worker in See also:Paris, where he died. His See also:Italian origin and training were probably responsible for the extravagance of his decorative See also:style. He shared, and perhaps distanced, the meretricious triumphs of Oppenard and Germain, since he dealt with the See also:Baroque in its most daring and flamboyant developments. Rarely does he leave a See also:foot or two of undecorated space; the effect of the whole is futile and fatiguing. It was because Meissonier carried the style of his See also:day to its extreme that he acquired so vast a popularity. Like the See also:English See also:brothers See also:Adam at a later day he not only as architect built houses, but as painter and decorator covered their See also:internal walls; he designed the furniture and the candlesticks, the See also:silver and the decanters for the table; he was as ready to produce a See also:snuff-See also:box as a See also:watch See also:case or a See also:sword hilt. Not only in See also:France, but for the See also:nobility of See also:Poland, See also:Portugal and other countries who took their fashions and their See also:taste from Paris, he made designs, which did nothing to improve See also:European taste. Yet his achievement was not wholly without merit. His See also:work in gold and silver-See also:plate was often graceful and some-times bold and See also:original. He was least successful in furniture, where his twirls and convolutions, his floral and rocaille motives were conspicuously offensive. He was appointed by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XV. Dessinateur de la chambre et du See also:cabinet du roi; the See also:post of designer pour See also:les pompes funebres et galantes was also held along with that of Orfevre du roi.
For our knowledge of his work we are considerably indebted to his own books of See also:design: Livre, d'ornements en trente pieces; Livre d'orfevrerie d'eglise en six pieces, and Ornements de la See also:carte chronologique.
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