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Johnston, David

French, 1789 - 1854

Biography

David Johnston was the son of Walter Johnston [d. 1819], an Irish emigré to France, and wealthy merchant established in Bordeaux from 1861. David took over the family firm in 1835 and started a porcelain and faïence works at Bacalan, near Bordeaux. The enterprise employed five hundred workers, and the products were well received at the Exposition de Bordeaux in 1838 and the Exposition de Paris in 1839. Johnston was elected mayor of Bordeaux, and made chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. Unfortunately the factory had financial difficulties in the mid 1840s, and was liquidated. Johnston died some ten years later. Although no monument to him exists in his native city, Johnston is the subject of a portrait by Prud'hon now in NGA [1961.9.84]

Bibliography

1926
Lapouyade, Meaundre de. Essai d'Histoire des Faïenceries de Bordeaux du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours. Macon, 1926: 74-79
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 363

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