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Article: French furniture in Boston. (Current and Coming).(Boston Museum of Fine Arts' conservation, exhibit of French furniture suite)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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James Swan, a self-made Scottish immigrant who arrived in Boston around 1765, began as an apprentice in a countinghouse and became a man of international reputation with a sizeable fortune. He accomplished this metamorphosis in two ways: first he married Hepzibah Clarke, a wealthy Bostonian, and second, through his military and political forays, he established friendships with important Frenchmen during the American Revolution. Through these alliances he launched a brilliant and profitable career supplying provisions to the French military during the war between France and Austria in the 1790s. Large quantities of royal possessions, which before the French Revolution ...
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