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Christopher Dresser first earned his living as a botanist, lecturing at the Department of Science and Art and at St. Mary's Hospital Schools. He visited Japan in 1876 as an official representative of the British Government exchanging the best examples of European design for their Japanese equivalents. He started a retail business, The Art Furnishers Alliance, in 1880. At the height of his career Dresser employed about twenty or more studio assistants, two being the notable J. Moyr Smith and Archibald Knox. Dresser was born 4 July 1834 in Glasgow and died 24 November 1924 in France. |
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