Dadd, Robert, 15 Suffolk St, Pall Mall East, London, French gilder, water gilder (1838–40). Trade label in the Windsor Royal Archives states that he was ‘Successor to A. PICNOT, French Gilder, Clock Case Maker & Bronzist’. The accounts for Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace record him in 1840 gilding mounts for inkstands, fenders and furniture, and lacquering and making mounts for a chess table. [D; PRO, LC 11/107]