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Medium/Discipline: Decorative Arts
Maryland Affiliation: Active while in residence
Style/Period: Rococo; Empire design
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Biography: Cuthbert Warner was a Pennsylvania Quaker who moved to Harford County, Maryland late in the eighteenth century and then to Baltimore at the very end of the century. He was a clockmaker and silversmith, listed for the first time in the Baltimore directories with a shop at 3 Jones (now Front) Street from 1799-1804. The shop was listed in the 1807-1812 directories as at his residence at 113 Green Street after which he is no longer listed. Some of Cuthbert Warner's tall case clocks and silver spoons have his mark, or insignia, of "C. Warner" while no other silverware utensils other than spoons were marked.
Thomas H. Warner (1780-1828), Cuthbert's first son, was listed in the Baltimore directory in 1803. Thomas and brother Andrew Ellicott Warner, Cuthbert's second son, formed a partnership that lasted about a decade, interrupted by the War of 1812. Thomas Warner married Mary Ann Meigs in 1810. He had three children, including his son, the oldest, Joseph P. Warner (1811-1862) who was a watchcase maker and silversmith and city assayer in 1844, 1851 and 1852. Thomas was bankrupt by 1820, died in 1828 and is buried in Greenmount Cemetery. Andrew Ellicott Warner (1786-1870) continued on his own after the War of 1812 and worked in silver and gold to continue his father's craft tradition.
Cuthbert Warner passed the silversmith craft to his children and their children's children, so that the Warner Silversmith legacy ended with the disinterest of his great-grandson, Andrew Litsinger Warner. As Wilbur Harvey Hunter writes in a 1971 exhibition catalogue, "...in the century between the first and last spoons, this family was one of the principal manufacturers of fine silverware in Baltimore." (Eader and Miller, foreword).
Art-related Employment: silversmith
Selected References: Eader, Thomas S. and Miller, Karl E. The Warner Family: Silversmiths to Baltimore. (Baltimore: The Peale Museum), 1971.
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