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See also:OEBEN, See also:JEAN See also:FRANCOIS , See also:French 18th-See also:century See also:cabinet-maker, is believed to have been of See also:German or Flemish origin; the date of his See also:birth is unknown, but he was dead before 1767. In 1752, twenty years after See also:Boulle's See also:death, we find him occupying an apartment in the Louvre sublet to him by See also:Charles See also:Joseph Boulle, whose See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil he may have been. He has sometimes been confused with See also:Simon Oeben, presumably a relative, who signed a See also:fine See also:bureau in the See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones collection at the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum. J. F. Oeben is also represented in that collection by a pair of inlaid corner-cupboards. These with a bureau and a chiffonier in the Garde Meuble in which bouquets of See also:flowers are delicately inlaid in choice See also:woods are his best-known and most admirable achievements. He appears to have worked extensively for the marquise de See also:Pompadour by whose See also:influence he Was granted lodgings at the Gobelins and the See also:title of " lbeniste du Roi in 1754. There he remained until 1760, when he obtained an apartment and workshops at the See also:Arsenal. His See also:work in See also:marquetry is of very See also:great distinction, but he would probably never have enjoyed so great a reputation had it not been for his connexion with the famous Bureau du Roi, made for 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., which appears to have owed its inception to him, notwithstanding that it was not completed until some considerable See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time after his death and is signed by J. H. See also:Riesener (q.v.) only. Documentary See also:evidence under the See also:hand of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king shows that it was ordered from Oeben in 1760, the See also:year in which he moved to the Arsenal. The known work of Oeben possesses genuine See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and beauty; as craftsmanship it is of the first See also:rank, and it is remark-able that, despite his See also:Teutonic or Flemish origin, it is typically French in See also:character.
End of Article: OEBEN, JEAN FRANCOIS
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