Bevan, Edward

Air Street Piccadilly, London; carpenter and blind maker (fl. 1772-1780)

Bevan supplied blinds to Sir John Griffin’s London house in 1772 and in 1775 repaired other blinds at Audley End. He was granted a patent for ‘his new and peculiarly constructed Venetian Blinds’ for which he charged at the rate of one shilling per sq. ft. So reads the heading of a bill dated 1778 to Sir Humphrey Morice, Comptroller to the Household of George II.

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By Virtue of his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, granted unto Edw.^d Bevan, Carpenter of Air Street Piccadilly, London ~ For the sole Use & Benefit of his new and peculiarly constructed (following is cut off from image) Venetian Blinds cast different Shades at the same Time, by means of new invented Patent Pulleys so inimitably contrived, as not to be seen a far exceeds anything of the kind hereunto attempted, 31 July 1775 [Heal,15*.1]. © The Trustees of the British Museum

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Bevan billhead London, Venetian Window Blinds by his Majesty's Royal Patent; made and Sold at N^o 19 Air Street, Piccadilly ~ by the Patentee ~ Edw^d Bevan Venetian and Spring Blinds, 1780 [D,2.3825.+]. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Source: DEFM; A. Westman, ‘Eighteenth-Century Window Blinds at Audley End: A Recent Discovery’, Furniture History (1997).