J. Dresch 

 

Little is known about J. Dresch. Like G. Stephany, he was probably trained by the Hess brothers in their studio in Brussels. From 1791, he worked together with G. Stephany in London at No. 33 Old Bond Street and at Harrington Place in Bath. The present example is a rectangular box with a gold rim. The cover glass protects the landscape depiction of Windsor Castle of the English Royal Family with the River Avon. To the best of our knowledge, this design has been produced three times in slightly different versions. One box is in the Buckingham Palace Museum, another in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and another is privately owned. Presumably the latter, in a division of labour with G. Stephany, produced mainly landscape and historical scenes.