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MATTHEW LAMB
Matthew Lamb was a successful lawyer and money-lender, and throughout the eighteenth century served some of the most prominent members of the aristocracy. Lamb amassed his fortune through professional associations, inheritance, and an advantageous marriage to the heiress, Charlotte Coke. His homes included Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire, acquired through his wife, Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, as well as a house in London. Lamb commissioned silver from some of the leading silversmiths of the eighteenth century, such as Paul de Lamerie, who supplied a set of four waiters, four sauceboats and four salt-cellars, George Wickes, who supplied a soup-tureen and six dishes, and Edward Feline.
On his death in 1768, Lamb's estate, valued at nearly £1 million, passed to his son Peniston Lamb, later created 1st Viscount Melbourne. Sir Matthew clearly believed his silver to be a particularly important part of his legacy, as he made a note in his will that it should be 'kept and preserved'. His son not only kept and preserved the collection, but added to it with orders of further plate from Parker and Wakelin to make additions to the dinner service. This included a matching soup-tureen to one by George Wickes, which his father had commissioned. The tureen dated from 1768, the year that Peniston inherited his father's fortune and the year before his marriage to Elizabeth Milbanke (1751-1818), daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet.
The suggested provenance for a sale in 1935 from the estate of the late Cora, Countess of Stafford, refers to a set of forty-eight dinner plates ascribed to Edward Wakelin. As a successor to George Wickes, the maker of this lot, Wakelin's mark is very similar to that of Wickes and their marks have been misattributed in the past. Wakelin entered his first mark in 1746 therefore the plates listed in the Stafford sale of 1937 were almost certainly by Wickes.
Matthew Lamb was a successful lawyer and money-lender, and throughout the eighteenth century served some of the most prominent members of the aristocracy. Lamb amassed his fortune through professional associations, inheritance, and an advantageous marriage to the heiress, Charlotte Coke. His homes included Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire, acquired through his wife, Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, as well as a house in London. Lamb commissioned silver from some of the leading silversmiths of the eighteenth century, such as Paul de Lamerie, who supplied a set of four waiters, four sauceboats and four salt-cellars, George Wickes, who supplied a soup-tureen and six dishes, and Edward Feline.
On his death in 1768, Lamb's estate, valued at nearly £1 million, passed to his son Peniston Lamb, later created 1st Viscount Melbourne. Sir Matthew clearly believed his silver to be a particularly important part of his legacy, as he made a note in his will that it should be 'kept and preserved'. His son not only kept and preserved the collection, but added to it with orders of further plate from Parker and Wakelin to make additions to the dinner service. This included a matching soup-tureen to one by George Wickes, which his father had commissioned. The tureen dated from 1768, the year that Peniston inherited his father's fortune and the year before his marriage to Elizabeth Milbanke (1751-1818), daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 5th Baronet.
The suggested provenance for a sale in 1935 from the estate of the late Cora, Countess of Stafford, refers to a set of forty-eight dinner plates ascribed to Edward Wakelin. As a successor to George Wickes, the maker of this lot, Wakelin's mark is very similar to that of Wickes and their marks have been misattributed in the past. Wakelin entered his first mark in 1746 therefore the plates listed in the Stafford sale of 1937 were almost certainly by Wickes.