{{Short description|English silversmith}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Anne Tanqueray | image = Anne-Tanqueray-Set-Of-Four-Salts.jpg | caption = Set of Four Salts, Clark Art Institute | birth_name = Anne Willaume | birth_date = 1691 | death_date = 1733 | death_place = Tingrith, England | known_for = Metalwork }}
'''Anne Tanqueray''' née Willaume (1691–1733) was an English silversmith, active from 1724–1733.
== Early life == Anne Tanqueray was born in 1691 to David Willaume I, a prominent Huguenot silversmith, who had come to London from France in 1685.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=16616|title=Anne Tanqueray|website=CLARA Database of Women Artists|access-date=14 March 2017|archive-date=14 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114195635/http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=16616|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Career == Tanqueray's husband established a workshop, and it is likely that Tanqueray created items bearing her husband's mark.<ref name=":2" /> Upon her husband's death, after 1724, she took over his business and she entered two marks (Sterling and New Standard) in the register at Goldsmiths' Hall.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Wees|first=Beth Carver|title=English, Irish, & Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute|publisher=Hudson Hills|year=1997|isbn=1555951171|pages=230}}</ref> Her marks appeared alongside her husband's original 1713 mark, with his name being struck through and hers written above, as opposed to a new entry, which was custom for a widow.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O103835/salt-tanqueray-anne/|title=Salt {{!}} Tanqueray, Anne {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|website=collections.vam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-03-14}}</ref> This appears to be the only instance in which this happened.
As a female silversmith in the 18th century, Tanqueray would have had the opportunity to produce her own work and oversee skilled journeymen.<ref name=":2" /> Tanqueray's workshop was noted for its high level of excellence and in 1729 it became Subordinate Goldsmith to the King.<ref name=":2" />
== Personal life == In 1717, she married David Tanqueray, her father's apprentice; they had two sons.<ref name=":0" />
== Death == Tanqueray died in 1733 and was buried in Tingrith on 25 July that year.<ref name=":1" />
== Legacy == Examples of Tanqueray's work can be found at Temple Newsam, Huguenot Museum in Rochester, Kent, Victoria and Albert Museum, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Welbeck Abbey, and the Clark Art Institute collections.
== References == <references />
== External links == * [https://www.bonhams.com/search/?q=Anne%20Tanqueray&main_index_key=lot#/q0=Anne%2520Tanqueray&MR0_display=search&m0=0?q=Anne%2BTanqueray Examples of Tanqueray's work] on Bonhams website * [https://museum.wales/art/online/?action=show_works&item=1474&type=artist Example of work] in the National Museum of Wales * [https://www.clarkart.edu/artpiece/detail/Set-of-Four-Salts-(1) Example of work] at the Clark Art Institute * [https://web.archive.org/web/20170315001712/http://openiart.uk/object/?ID=10247 Four salt-cellars by Anne Tanqueray] available to view at Welbeck Abbey
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