Trask, Israel (1786-1867)
- Name:
- Trask, Israel (1786-1867)
- Born:
- 10/24/1786
- Birthplace:
- Beverly, MA
- Died:
- 1867
- Residence:
- Beverly, MA
- Nationality:
- American
- Occupation:
- Pewterer and britannia manufacturer
- Father:
- Trask, Jeremiah
- Mother:
- Trask, Hannah Wallis
- Relations:
- Worked with his brothers, George and Oliver Trask, all pewterers in Beverly, MA.
- Notes:
- From Laughlin, Pewter in America (1940): "As a boy he was apprenticed to John W. Ellingwood, a silversmith and bought out Ellingwood's stock in trade in 1807. He commenced the manufacture of pewter and britannia in that town [Beverly, Mass.] about 1825 and his designs and decorations of pewter testify to his training as a silversmith.... As late as 1856 he was listed as a britannia manufacturer in the New England Mercantile Directory.... Trask made teapots, communion flagons, christening bowls, castors, lamps, and probably a great many other forms. A dignity and honesty of design is apparent in all his work."
SEE ALSO: Artist/Maker field -- Trask, Israel
SEE ALSO (brother): Trask, Oliver
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