Edwin Foley
Victorian furniture designer and manufacturer
He was born Edwin John Foley in Fisherton Anger, Wiltshire, c.1859, the second child and eldest son of furniture manufacturer Arthur Foley of the Fisherton Cabinet Works, Salisbury, and his wife Jane. He was at least partly educated in London, where he lived with his uncle and aunt, Peter and Rhoda Marie Brown. He worked as a designer for his father from at least the early 1880s, but by 1891 was living in Charlotte Street, Marylebone, with his wife Louisa Maud (nee Hayford), whom he married in 1882. They had three children, Conrad Hayford (b. 1885), Hubert Edwin (b. 1887) and Alan Victor (b. 1888).
Artworks by this artist
- Bureau du roi Louis XV. French tansitional Louis XV-XVI style 1910 - 1911
- Chimneypiece in coloured mosaic. Florentine. Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Table in coloured mosaic 1910 - 1911
- Mahogany divisible dining-tables, dining room splat-back chairs 1910 - 1911
- Bureau de campagne and bureau en boîte of Napoleon the First, Chateau de la Malmaison, France. 1910 - 1911
- Carved mahogany pedestal sideboard, Oval wheel-back master’s chair 1910 - 1911
- The salle du trone in the Palace of Fontainebleau 1910 - 1911
- Group of late sixteenth-century continental furniture 1910 - 1911
- Mirror, gueridons, and table overlaid with silver plaques 1910 - 1911
- Satinwood dressing-table with medallions 1910 - 1911
- Psyché and bed of Napoleon the First 1910 - 1911
- Upholstered chair and couch with adjustable ends 1910 - 1911
- The Chippendale Chinese room at Badminton House 1910 - 1911
- Queen Anne’s bed, Chest of drawers upon stand, Wooden candleabra 1910 - 1911
- The littlecote bedstead. The property of Vincent Robinson, Esquire, F. S. A., Parnham, Dorset 1910 - 1911
- Jewel cabinet of Queen Marie Antoinette, of mahogany, gilt, inlaid, carved, and with painted plaques 1910 - 1911
- A heppelwhite bedroom. 1910 - 1911
- Inlaid jewel casket of walnut wood. Panelled front sides and top 1910 - 1911
- The panelled study at Groombridge Place, Kent. By permission of the Misses Saint. 1910 - 1911
- Mahogany and gilt Georgian suite in the gallery and green drawing-room of Longford Castle 1910 - 1911
- Wedgwood-Flaxman chimneypiece 1910 - 1911