“Mr. Brewer most respectfully informs the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and others in Derby and its vicinity, that he has arranged for their inspection his Specimens of Water-colour Paintings as an Exhibition, consisting of more than two hundred different Subjects, many of them quite new, and the whole designed and painted by himself, which he hopes during the interval of time not given to the festival will afford an agreeable change of amusement. May be viewed from 8 in the morning until dark at his house near St. Mary’s Bridge, Bridge Gate, Derby. Admittance—Ladies and Gentlemen 1s., Children half price. Mr. Brewer’s pupils free, also purchasers of Drawings.”
| Finished from April 29th. | ||
| 2 | Coffee cans and stands, Shipping N | 1 |
| 6 | Plates of plants | 2 |
| 4 | Comports of Landscapes | 3 |
| 6 | Comports of plants | 4 |
| 2 | Comports of plants | 5 |
| 2 | Coffee Cans Moonlight and fire | 6 |
| 2 | Coffee Cans and stands Birds | 7 |
| 2 | Tea pots Landscapes from Gilpin | 8 |
| 1 | Dejuneé of Birds | 9 |
| 20 | Plates of Rose border | 10 |
| 1 | Cream jug of Birds | 11 |
| 1 | Sugar bason Do. | 12 |
| 2 | Cabinet cups 1st and 2d Lesson of Love | 13 |
| 12 | Coffee cups of Landscapes | 14 |
| 12 | Plates of Landscapes | 15 |
| 3 | Comports Do. | 16 |
| 1 | Tea pot of Birds | 17 |
| 83 | Pieces to Septbr. 8th. | |
| In hand. | |
| 2 | Comports of plants. |
| 4 | Plates of do. |
| 4 | Coffee Cans of flowers. |
| 1 | Dejuneé of Ships. |
| 1 | Comport of Landscape, finished. |
| 1 | Cream jug Birds |
| 1 | Tea pot Do. |
| 12 | Saucers Landscapes. |
| 2 | Cans shipping. |
| 1 | Cream jug Do. |
| 1 | Sugar Bason Do. |
| 30 | Sept. 8th. |
| Jno. Brewer. | |
Robert Brewer is stated to have been a brother to John Brewer. He was a pupil of Paul Sanby. On leaving the Derby works he commenced practising as a drawing master, and died in 1857.
Benjamin Brocklesby, son of John Brocklesby, of Derby, labourer, was apprenticed, for seven years, on the 16th of September, 1783, to learn “the Art or Business of Painting Porcelain or China Ware.” On the 24th of August, 1787 (Mr. Duesbury, to whom he had been apprenticed, having died on the 30th October, 1786) he absconded, and on the 13th January, 1789, a warrant was issued for his apprehension, and endorsed to be executed in Middlesex and Westminster.
George Broughton, a painter.
Thomas Broughton, painter, 1776.
Joseph Bullock, son of Joseph Bullock, of the borough of Derby, Framework Knitter, was bound apprentice on the 23rd September, 1765, by the same printed indentures “to learn the Art of Painting upon China or Porcelain ware.”
Sebastian Clais, a Frenchman, was employed as a painter about 1772–9.
James Clarke, a painter and gilder, was apprenticed, and for nearly 30 years remained, at the works.