Newton, Isaac (1777-1787)
Newton, Isaac
Dublin, Ireland; carver, gilder and looking glass seller (fl.1777-87)
Freeman of the City of Dublin as a Merchant by Birth, Midsummer 1777.
Recorded at 4 Essex Bridge, 1777-81; 88 Grafton Street, 1782-7.
Saunders’s News-Letter, 1 December 1779: ‘Looking Glasses by auction. To be sold on Thursday the 2nd of December instant by Charles Sheil, the entire stock of Isaac Newton No. 4 Essex-bridge, who has disposed of his house, consisting of an elegant variety of square and oval pier glasses, highly executed in the modern taste, oval and fancy girandoles, dressing glasses of different sorts, cut glass chandeliers finished to the highest fashion, hall and staircase globes, bells, shades, etc.
As Mr. Newton's stock is as extensive as any offered for public sale in this Kingdom, the nobility and gentry are requested to view them on or before Thursday next. The sale to begin each day at eleven o'clock and continue till the whole are sold, without any reserve, as he is obliged to give up his house in a few days’.
Source: Glin & Peill, Irish Furniture (2007), p. 294.