Bateman hester Anne Bateman Peter Bateman,Silversmith,london
Hester Bateman(1709-1794) must be considered a remarkable woman. Widowed at the age of 51, she promptly took over her husband's metal smithy in Bunhill Row on the fringes of the city of London, and developed it - she did not retire from active participation till she was over 80 - from a single outworker's hut into a gigantic silversmith business. Her workshops ran the width of the three houses behind which they were built, and in which she lived together with her sons Peter and Jonathan and Jonathan's wife, Ann, a silver worker in her own right. Jonathan and Ann's son, William, later joined the family business. The ware that these craftsmen fashioned, under Hester Bateman's guidance, as well as that she herself made, ranks in quality and design with that of the best 18thC and early 19thC works
“For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; / Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.”
From the Bible
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