Pettitt, George (1789-1839)
Pettitt, George
Brewer Street, Golden Square, London; upholsterer and cabinet maker (fl. 1789–1839)
The son of John Pettitt of Paddington, London, upholsterer, apprenticed to Daniel Weale on 4 December 1782 and made free of the Upholders’ Company by servitude, 11 October 1790 [Guildhall Library, Upholders' Company archive].
The trade card of Pettitt, Upholsterer to her Majesty and her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth, Brewer Street, Golden Square, 1808 [D,2.659]. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Pettitt was married in 1788 and is recorded in London directories as early as 1789 at 47 Brewer Street. After 1826 the number was changed to 48.
He subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793, and Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. Three of his trade cards survive [Banks Coll., BM]; those dated 1808–09 record that he was ‘Upholsterer to Her Majesty and the Princess Elizabeth’. The long duration of his business would suggest that it was directed in its later years by another hand, possibly his son. ; Gents Mag., 1788, p. 1124]
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.