John Pelletier information

John (Jean)^[1] Pelletier (fl. ca 1681 – 1704) was a French Huguenot^[2] carver and gilder, who emigrated from Paris, where he had trained, and worked in London. He provided high-style Baroque furniture for the court of William III and Mary II, specializing in carved, gessoed and gilded furniture of the highest quality. He was also employed in providing carved and gilded picture and looking-glass frames and in gilding the work of other carvers.^[3]

After John Pelletier's death in 1704, his sons René and Thomas continued the workshop until they split in 1711, René pursuing a second career as a mounter of drawings, and Thomas, who was appointed cabinetmaker in ordinary to Queen Anne in 1704, as an auctioneer.^[4] Tessa Murdoch suggests,^[5] from Jean Pelletier's shaky handwriting in 1702, that he was already working in a supervisory capacity at that date.

^ Pelletier signs his will Jean; the will, made out in 1702, is preserved in the Greater London Record Office AM/PW 1704 6a.
^ Always assumed, his Huguenot status is demonstrated in the registers of the Huguenot church of the Savoy, London, December 1715, where the baptism of his grandson Jean Anthoine, son of René and Marie Catherine Pelletier, is recorded (Huguenot Society Quarto Series 26, 1922 p. 36), noted by Tessa Murdoch, "Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot Family of Carvers and Gilders in England 1682–1726. Part I", The Burlington Magazine 139 No. 1136 (November 1997), pp. 732–742, note p. 732; this detailed article supersedes all previous references.
^ Murdoch 1997.
^ Their separate later careers are discussed by Tessa Murdoch in "Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot Family of Carvers and Gilders in England 1682–1726. Part II", The Burlington Magazine 140 No. 1143 (June 1998), pp. 363–374.
^ Murdoch 1997, p. 733.

[1] Pelletier signs his will Jean; the will, made out in 1702, is preserved in the Greater London Record Office AM/PW 1704 6a.

[2] Always assumed, his Huguenot status is demonstrated in the registers of the Huguenot church of the Savoy, London, December 1715, where the baptism of his grandson Jean Anthoine, son of René and Marie Catherine Pelletier, is recorded (Huguenot Society Quarto Series 26, 1922 p. 36), noted by Tessa Murdoch, "Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot Family of Carvers and Gilders in England 1682–1726. Part I", The Burlington Magazine 139 No. 1136 (November 1997), pp. 732–742, note p. 732; this detailed article supersedes all previous references.

[3] Murdoch 1997.

[4] Their separate later careers are discussed by Tessa Murdoch in "Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot Family of Carvers and Gilders in England 1682–1726. Part II", The Burlington Magazine 140 No. 1143 (June 1998), pp. 363–374.

[5] Murdoch 1997, p. 733.

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