Susanna Barker | |
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Nationality | English |
Occupation | Silversmith |
Susanna (sometimes Susannah) Barker was an English silversmith.
Classified as a smallworker, Barker worked in London, registering her date mark on 25 June 1778. A second mark was registered on 12 August 1789, with a third following on 26 August the same year. At one time she worked out of a shop at 16 Gutter Lane; from 1790 until 1793 she is recorded as working as a goldsmith at 29 Gutter Lane.[1] Silversmith Robert Barker, who registered his own mark in 1793, may have been her son.[2] Barker specialized in the making of wine labels,[1] and was noted especially for her star-shaped and eye-shaped designs.[3]
Three wine labels by Barker, dated to 1792, are owned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts.[1] The Victoria and Albert Museum owns a silver bottle ticket by her, dated to around 1800.[4]