Moorfields School
William Addison
Moorfields, worked 1650–1675
Viols and some violins on Amatisé model with thin golden-yellow varnish. An advertisement in the London Gazette of 1675 reads: ‘Lost Octob. 2. at night, out of a coach, between Billingsgate and Charing Cross, a black case with a new violin in it, made by William Addis in the Strand, this year 1675, \u{2026} — John Dilworth
Biographies
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John Dilworth+
ADDISON (ADDIS), William Worked circa. 1650-1675 Moorfields, London UK. Viols and some violins on Amatisé model with thin golden-yellow varnish. An advertisement in the London Gazette of 1675 reads: ‘Lost Octob. 2. at night, out of a coach, between Billingsgate and Charing Cross, a black case with a new violin in it, made by William Addis in the Strand, this year 1675, with a stockmans bowe in it. Whoever can give notice of it to Mr. Carr at the Middle Temple-gate, shall be well rewarded’. William Addison / in Long Alley / over against Moorfields, 1670
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Ein englischer Violenbauer, der von Sandys u. Forster, die seinen in einer Viola gefundenen Zettel mittheilen, erwähnt wird. Es scheint nicht, dass noch andere Arbeiten von ihm bekannt geworden sind.
William Meredith Morris+
It is not certain whether or not he made violins, but he made viols. Label : —
WILLIAM ADDISON, IN LONG ALLEY, OVER AGAINST MOORFIELDS, 1670
Cecie Stainer+
A maker of viols in London.
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