More Wax Portraits by the Gossets.

 

Matthew Gosset (1683 - 1744).

he was uncle of -

Gideon Gosset (1707 - 85).

Isaac Gosset (1713 - 99).

James Gosset (fl. 1736 - 63).

The Standard Work on Wax Sculpture is A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers by E. J. Pyke. Pub Oxford, 1973. Currently unavailable unless purchased for several hundred pounds.

There are entries in the Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ....pub Yale 2009 for Gideon, Isaac, James, and Matthew Gosset.

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Matthew Gosset, parish of St Anne Soho, London by 1709, Berwick St by 1716, parish of St James Westminster 1740, Poland St.

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Jacob Gosset  (b. 1701 - d.1788).  Oxenden St, London 1726 -1729, The Golden Table, Oxenden St 1727, Warwick St, Golden Square 1729-1767. Carver and gilder, cabinetmaker. see - Jacob Simon's entry at BIFMO https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/research/programmes/conservation/directory-of-british-framemakers/g/

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James Gossett is recorded as working as a modeller in wax and picture framer in Berwick Street, Soho, in The Universal Director, or the Nobleman's and Gentleman' True Guide to the Masters and Professors of the Liberal and Polite Arts by Thomas Mortimer, 1763.

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Matthew Gosset was at Poland St, Soho.

In his will Matthew Gossett of St James, Westminster, made 12 January 1740 and proved 29 March 1744, he left his house on the east side of Berwick St to his nephews, Gideon and Isaac. 

His widow, Jane Esther Gosset, died in 1748, leaving an interesting will, describing her deceased husband as late of Poland St. The will was witnessed by James L. Guillet  and Abraham Dallain. She refers to her sister Elizabeth Pujolas, who was presumably related to Henry Pujolas from Uzès, who married in 1691 (Minet 1921 p.25), to Joseph Pujolas, who was apprenticed to Gideon Gosset in 1725, and to another Henry Pujolas, who was apprenticed to Jean Antoine Cuenot in 1747. She also refers to her Le Touzay relatives.

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Isaac Gosset.

Berwick Street, London (1747-74)

14 Edward Street, Portman Square (1774-97

Son of Jean Gosset and Susanne D'Allain, and nephew of Matthew Gosset to whom he was apprenticed.

He made frames for George III, including the state portraits of the King and Queen by Allan Ramsay, for Hogarth's "Paul before Felix" (Lincoln's Inn), and for Gainsborough and William Hoare. Gainsborough painted Gosset's portrait.

https://theframeblog.com/tag/gosset/

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Gosset at Strawberry Hill - The Strawberry Hill Sale 1742.

13th Day Monday May 9th, 1742.

Lot 45.  A  miniature  Portrait,  in  wax,  of  Lady  Mary  Coke,  beautifully  modelled, in  an  elegant  carved  frame.  She  was  the  fourth  daughter  of  John Campbell,  Duke  of  Argyle,  and  widow  of  Edward  Lord  Coke, and  the  Lady  to  whom  Mr.  Walpole  dedicated  the  Castle  of  Otranto, by  GOSSET