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SHEARER, THOMAS

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 815 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHEARER, THOMAS , English 18th-century furniture designer and cabinet-maker. The solitary biographical fact we possess relating to this distinguished craftsman is that he was the author of most of the plates in The Cabinet Maker's London Book of Prices and Designs of Cabinet
Work
 , issued in 1788 " For the London Society of Cabinet Makers." The
majority
  of these plates were republished separately as Designs for Household Furniture. They exhibit their author as a man with an eye at once for simplicity of
design
  and delicacy of proportion. Indeed some of his pieces possess a dainty and slender elegance which has never been surpassed in the history of English furniture.
There can be little doubt that
Shearer
  exercised considerable influence over Hepplewhite, with whom there is reason to suppose that he was closely associated, while
Sheraton
  has recorded his admiration for
work
  which has often been attributed to others.
Shearer
 , in his turn, owes something to the
brothers
 
Adam
 , and something no doubt, to the stock designs of his predecessors. There is every reason to suppose that he worked at his craft with his own hands and that he was literally a cabinet-makerso far as we know, he never made chairs. Much of the elegance of Shearer's work is due to his graceful and reticent employment of inlays of satinwood and other foreign woods. But he was as successful in form as in decoration, and no man ever used the curve to better purpose. In Shearer's time the sideboard was in process of evolution; previously it had been a table with drawers, the pedestals and knife-boxes being
separate
  pieces. He would seem to have been first to combine them into the familiar and often beautiful form they took at the end of the 18th century. The combination may have been made before, but his
plate
  is, in point of time, the first published document to show it.
Shearer, like many of his contemporaries, was much given to devising " harlequin " furniture. He was a designer of high merit and real originality, and occupies a distinguished place among the little band of men, often, like himself, ill-educated and obscure of origin, who raised the English cabinet-making of the second half of the 18th century to an illustrious place in artistic history.


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