Pierre-Emile Jeannest
Born 1813 (Probable)
Died 1857 (Probable)
Active: 1813 - 1857
Modeller, teacher, ceramic sculptor
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Elkington & Co.
See Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 85 and Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 279: no dates are given by the authors.
Employed at Minton and Company
1845 (Circa) - 1855 (Circa)
Employed as a figure modeller, produced designs for majolica, terracotta, parian and porcelain. Wilkinson suggests a start date of 1845, Atterbury and Batkin suggest a start date of c. 1848 and end date of the early 1950s. See Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 85, Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 279 and Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged.
Teacher of modeling at Hanley School of Art
September 1848 (Probable)
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Teacher of modeling at Stoke School of Art
September 1848
See Haggar (1953), p. 6.
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 6 and p. 44.
A Dictionary of Ceramic Artists
2007
p. 85.
The Dictionary of Minton
1990
p. 279.
Citing this record
'Pierre-Emile Jeannest', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1219250614, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
