Porcelain painters Victorian period
Marc-Louis Solon
Montauban 31.07.1835 — Stoke-on-Trent 23.06.1913
Marc-Louis-Emmanuel Solon, pseudonym Miles, was a renowned French porcelain artist. After beginning his career at the Sèvres Porcelain Factory, he moved to Stoke-on-Trent in 1870 to work at Mintons Ltd, where he became the leading exponent of the technique of ceramic decoration called pâte-sur-pâte. His work commanded high prices in the late Victorian period.
1835–1913