Nicholas Sprimont was founder of Chelsea porcelain. A native of Liege, he was born in 1716. Nicholas Sprimont was a Huguenot and originally a silversmith by trade.
He relocated to the village of Chelsea in the potteries section of England in the 1740's and by 1747 was a full-time manufacturer of soft-paste porcelain. His personal porcelain creations are likely to have been produced between 1742 and 1748.
Some sources say Nicholas Sprimont died in 1756, having been in chronically bad health. But another source has Sprimont selling the Chelsea Porcelain Factory to James Cox in 1769.
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We do know from the first picture that Nicholas Sprimont had a wife and a sister, who are depicted here with him and his works. The second image is that of a figural grouping and urn that some believe was fashioned by Sprimont personally.
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