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(1) George Seddon
(b c. 1727; d 1801). Furniture-maker. He became a freeman of the Joiners’ Company, London, in 1751 and set up shop in Aldersgate Street in 1753. Almost bankrupted by fires in his workshops in 1768 and 1783, he was employing 400 cabinetmakers, upholsterers, carvers and gilders by 1786. Among his commissions were a suite of satinwood chairs (one at London, V&A; another sold London, Sotheby’s, 15 and 22 Feb 1991, lot 277) for D. Tupper of Guernsey in 1790 and some mahogany furniture (Ulefoss Manor col., nr Porsgrunn, Norway, see Hughes, figs V–VIII) for Niels Aalls, a Norwegian merchant, in 1793. Charles IV, King of Spain (reg 1788–1808) owned a cabinet (destr. after 1908) made by Seddon in 1793 to a design by William Chambers.
Part of the Seddon family
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