New, John

8 Aldgate High St; London, carver and gilder (1820–39)

Recorded as John New in 1820 but by 1839 the business was trading as John, Edward & Frederick New. A convex giltwood mirror with lustre arm and eagle cresting, c.1820, bears a label printed ‘Drawings and Needlework Framed and Glazed in the Neatest and Most Fashionable taste at John New’s Looking Glass Manufacturers, 8, Aldgate High Street, Opposite the Minories, London, Old Glass New  Silvered and Paintings Cleaned’ (illus. Gilbert (1996), fig.679, sold Christie’s South Kensington, 19 June 1996, lot 424).

Source:  DEFM; Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840 (1996).