Emil Friedrich Henrichsen

Emil Friedrich Henrichsen (late 19th century), German jeweller, silversmith, bronzesmith. Hallmark: F.E.H in a rectangle. Opened a workshop in St Petersburg, where he collaborated with Fabergé and Nichols & Plinke and worked on imperial commissions.
Born: mid-19th century
Died: after 1898
Movements:
Imperial Russian Jewellery 19th–20th Centuries
National Romanticism

German jeweller, silversmith, bronzesmith. Hallmark: F.E.H in a rectangle. Repaired bronzeware at the workshop in the Winter Palace, joined the crown workshop of silversmiths and opened his own workshop at the corner of 48 River Fontanka Embankment and 2 Graf Lane in St Petersburg (1870s), where he collaborated with Nicholls & Plincke (1870s) and Carl Fabergé (1880s–90s). Made a large silver tankard for Prince Leonid Lvov in the National Romantic style (1882) and worked on imperial commissions worth a total sum of 211,000 roubles (1884–94). Contributed to the Nordic Exhibition of Industry, Agriculture and Art in Copenhagen (1888). Sold his factory to Alexander Lyubavin (1898–1907), whose work was continued by his son Nikolai Lyubavin (1907–17), who employed fifty-five (1908), seventy (1909) and seventy-six craftsmen (1912).

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