Resumen de Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot Family of Carvers and Gilders in England 1682-1726. Part I
This article sets out to re-examine the furniture and picture frames traditionally attributed to the Pelletier workshop in London, to make some new attributions and to attempt to define the roles played by the different members of the family. Jean Pelletier and his two sons, Rene and Thomas, who practised as carvers, gilders and engravers, came from Paris and settled in London during the 1680s. They were Huguenots,' and may have left France to avoid the persecution that culminated in the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685. They did not come directly to London, for in December 1681 Jean Pelletier is recorded as present in Amsterdam where he became a member of the Huguenot church.2 In the same -year, his eldest son, Rene, ten years Thomas's senior, took up citizenship of Amsterdam, describing his profession as engraver.
