Martin Guillaume Biennais

France · 1764–1843

Martin-Guillaume Biennais was a French goldsmith and silversmith. == Biography == Martin-Guillaume Biennais was born in La Cochère on April 29, 1764. After his father's death, Biennais moved to Paris in 1788, where he initially engaged in commerce; he married but was widowed after a year. The first part of his career he dedicated mainly to goldsmithing, but after the end of the revolutionary period, he approached more to silverware, since gold and silver objects during the Napoleonic Empire could be worked and produced. In addition to all kinds of silverware, jewelry, porcelain, religious objects, various white weapons embellished with military decorations, he produced mahogany furniture, such as chests of drawers, consoles, coffee tables, toilets and beds.

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