Chippendale Chronology
1718 Thomas Chippendale born, Otley Late 1730's(?) Working for Richard Wood, York (?) Early 1740's(?) Moved to London (?) 1747 First documented client, the Earl of Burlington 1748 Married Catherine Redshaw. Five boys, four girls Living at Conduit Court, Longacre 1749 Birth of Thomas Chippendale the younger 1752 Moved to Somerset Court, the Strand. Matthias Darley, draughtsman, living at same address 1753 Preparation of plates of The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director. Invitation to subscribers. Moves to 60, 61 and 62 St Martin's Lane. 1754 Publication of first edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director (333 copies ordered). In partnership with James Rannie, Chippendale & Rannie 1755 Publication of second edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director. Fire at St Martin's Lane premises (workboxes of 22 journeymen destroyed). Thomas Johnson publishes Twelve Girandoles. 1759 Dumfries House commission (to 1766). Begins designs for third edition of The Director. Ince and Mayhew publish General System of useful and Ornamental Furniture. 1762 Publication of third edition of The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director 1763 Sir Laurence Dundas' commission (for Aske Hall and 19 Arlington Street, to 1766) 1766 Death of business partner James Rannie. Financial crisis, sale of stock and utensils. Nostell Priory commission (to 1785), Foremark Hall commission (to 1774) 1767 Harewood commission (to 1803), Mersham-le-Hatch commission (to 1779) 1768 Visits France. David Garrick's commission (to 1778). Burton Constable commission (to 1779) 1771 New partnership with Thomas Haig and Henry Ferguson, Chippendale, Haig and Co. Goldsborough commission (to 1776) 1772 Death of first wife. Newby Hall commission (to 1776) 1773 Paxton commission (to 1791) 1776 Thomas Chippendale the elder retires to Kensington. Business continued by Thomas Chippendale the younger until bankruptcy in 1804. 1777 Marries Elizabeth Davis (one daughter and one son born posthumously) 1778 Death of Thomas Chippendale at Hoxton (from consumption). Buried at St Martins-in-the-Fields 1804 Bankruptcy of Thomas Chippendale the Younger 1822/3 Death of Thomas Chippendale the Younger 1727 Death of George I, accession of George II 1728 Publication of James Gibbs' Book of Architecture 1735 Founding of St Martin's Lane Academy 1744 Publication of Matthias Locke's Six Sconces, first rococo furniture pattern book 1745 Jacobite uprising 1753 Publication of Robert Wood's Ruins of Palmyra 1756 - 1763 Seven Years War 1758 Return of Robert Adam from Italy 1759 Annus Mirabilis 1760 Death of George II, accession of George III 1769 Foundation of the Royal Academy 1773 - 1779 Publication of Robert and James Adam's Works in Architecture, in instalments 1774 - 1782 American War of Independence 1789 Storming of the Bastille 1792 War with France
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