Wyer, John (1749-1778)
Wyer, John
Dublin, Ireland; upholder and auctioneer (fl.1749-d.1778)
Made Freeman of the City of Dublin as an Upholder by Service, Midsummer 1749.
Recorded in Capel Street, 1758; Stephen Street, 1770-8.
Placed a notice in Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, 11-14 February 1758: ‘John Wyer, Upholder and Auctioneer, having opened shop in the Upholder Business, Capel-street, makes all kinds of furniture in as neat a manner as any imported from London; he makes all kinds of Chinese domed testers, bells and other tester beds in the different forms now in taste’.
Took as apprentices his son Cornelius Wyer, made Freeman of the City of Dublin as an Upholder by Birth, Midsummer 1792.
Source: Glin & Peill, Irish Furniture (2007), p. 279.
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