MARK OF ANDREW FOGELBERG, LONDON, 1774

ANDREW FOGELBERG
The goldsmith Andrew Fogelberg (1732-1815), also identified as Anders Fogelberg, was born in Sweden in 1732 and apprenticed to a goldsmith in Halmsted in 1746. He is thought to have come to England from Sweden around 1770, however, the marriage of an Andrew Fogelberg to Elizabeth Hebert is recorded at St. Ann's Soho in 1766. It was at this church that Andrew Fogelberg was to marry Susanna Walker (d.1818) in 1793. Elizabeth Hebert was possibly the widow of the Huguenot goldmsith Henry Hebert (d.1764). In 1793 Fogelberg is recorded as a plateworker in Church Street, Soho in 1773. In 1780 he entered into a partnership with Stephen Gilbert, who had been apprenticed to Edward Wakelin in 1752. From their address at 29 Church Street, St Ann's, Soho, the output of this partnership was of exceptional quality and a restrained classical nature.

Fogelberg's later work, especially following his partnership with Gilbert was highlighted by the use of small cameo medallions after James Tassie, however, Fogelberg's design for these sauceboats differs from his later work and owes more to the designs of Sir William Chambers, the Swedish born Scottish architect, especially the tureens he created for the Duke of Marlborough, made by John Parker and Edward Wakelin in 1767. Fogelberg also worked on the Marlborough commission and knew Chambers through the Anglo Swedish community in London, as discussed by Hilary Young in his chapter on Chamber's work in silver in J. Harris and M. Snodin ed. Sir William Chambers, Architect to George III, London, 1997, p. 152.