Robert-Joseph Auguste
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Robert-Joseph Auguste was a sculptor and royal goldsmith to Louis XV
and Louis XVI of France
, whose coronation crown he made. Without a formal apprenticeship, Auguste was enabled to pursue his vocation by royal license, as an artist suivant le cour: he was often commissioned for works by the kings of France. Extensive silver services were delivered over several years for George III of Great Britain , beginning in 1776, and for Catherine II of Russia.
In addition to silver and gold, he modelled work that was cast in bronze and gilded, such as the mounts on a porphyry vase and cover in the Wallace Collection
, London.
His son Henri Auguste
assumed control of the family workshop in 1784–85.
Louis XV of France
Louis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...
and Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being executed in 1793....
, whose coronation crown he made. Without a formal apprenticeship, Auguste was enabled to pursue his vocation by royal license, as an artist suivant le cour: he was often commissioned for works by the kings of France. Extensive silver services were delivered over several years for George III of Great Britain , beginning in 1776, and for Catherine II of Russia.
In addition to silver and gold, he modelled work that was cast in bronze and gilded, such as the mounts on a porphyry vase and cover in the Wallace Collection
Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection is a museum in London, with a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries.It was established in...
, London.
His son Henri Auguste
Henri Auguste
Henri Auguste was a leading Parisian gold- and silversmith, working in the neoclassical style. In cooperation with the sculptor Jean Guillaume Moitte, who provided him with designs and models, he became one of the leading designers of Empire style in orfèvrerie, a rival of Jean-Baptiste-Claude...
assumed control of the family workshop in 1784–85.