HUGIJENOT ARTISTS DESIGNERS AND CRAYPSNEN IN GREAT ...

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Tables 2 bench Bedsteads with 2 feather bedds & 2 boulsters 4 blankets
& two ruggs, three half headed bedsted.s for the servants, with three
matts, three feather bedds, boulster, three rugs & three pair of blariketts
for twenty months time (viz.) from November 1688 to August 1690.'
The next year Lapierre supplied a large very fine Persian Carpet..
for her Majesty's service in the Gallery at Kensington' for £64.1O.0.
and in 1694-5 '5 peices of fine Tapestry hanging for Mr.Keppells
Bedchamber at Windsor Castle for 5.236.05.00.
As well as working in the capacity of interior decorator and
contractor for other craftsmen, Lapierre also practised as an upholsterer.
Accounts survive for work of this nature at Boughton, Knole and
Chatsworth. The accounts at Boughton are of particular interest as it
is possible to relate Lapierre's accounts with those of the Pelletier
family. Thus in April, 1706 Lapierre was paid for 'two square stools
finely carved stuff'd with curled hair & covered with linnen at £1.5s'
(5.5.O.0.i. and for 'covering the stools with crimson velvet & all
embroidering them wth gold lace £k.0.0.'. In May of the same year,
Pelletier was paid £5.0.O.'f or gilding two square stools and two
round ones for my lady Montherxner Closet at 25s a stOi'5
Francis Lapierre's bill specifies that the items were for Montagu House,
but it is possible that the two round stools in the Second State Room
at Boughton were made by the same team of craftsmen.
The Chatsworth accounts record that in 1697, Francis Lapierre
was paid in part of £470 for a Bed, at £6 a week, 17 paymts paid £102.0.0.
The tester of the bed survives in the long gallery at Hardwic11 Hall,
where it serves as a canopy. Lapierre also supped a Chandelier'
in the same year for which he was paid 5.27.9.6.
At Knole, an account dated December 26th, 169 4 includes the
following items,
'For a easy Chear freame Japand Black stoed with corled hear & coverd
with lynen & Making ye Chear & gilt Neiyle all round & a Coshing £3.12.0.
For 8 large turkey skins ..to cover ye Chear £3.12.0.
For making of ye Ca.as For ye Blue lethor chear £O.3.0.
For 6 yds 3- of Blue Serge to Make ye Caas at 2s 6d yd £O.16.O.
For sewing silk & hooks & yes £O0.02.O0.
In the following year, Lapierre supplied the Earl of Dorset with three
pictures for £2O.0.O
Of all his patrons, Lapierre was closest to the Duke of 1ontagu,
and a document survi res at Boughton, which shows that Francis Lapierre