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(2) Michiel (Jos) Verberckt
(b Antwerp, 17 March 1706; d Antwerp, 10 Nov 1778). Silversmith, brother of (1) Jacques Verberckt. He was apprenticed in 1726 to Jan Carel II van Beughen and became a master in 1734. In the same year he married a daughter of the silversmith Jan Baptist Buijssens I. He was dean of the goldsmiths’ guild (1740–42; 1758). Michiel Verberckt specialized in the production of silverwork for churches in Antwerp and the surrounding region but he also made some domestic silver, decorated with excellent chasing, first in the late Baroque style but later in a Neo-classical style.
Part of the Verberckt family
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