Hawkes, Thomas

Cross Lane, Long Acre, London; carver (fl.1779-81)

Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1779 for £200 of which £50 accounted for utensils, stock and goods. Probable carver of the footboard cover of Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion and the second step Hercules killing the Lernean serpent, on the State Coach of the Prince of Wales, 1780-81, for which he charged £45 for both together with what may be two frames.

Sources: DEFM; Wackernagel, ‘Carlton House Mews: The State Coach of the Prince of Wales and of the Later Kings of Hanover. A Study in the late-eighteenth-century Mystery of Coach Building’, Furniture History (1995).