FEATURING PRECIOUS HAND CUT AND ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS ON CRYSTAL CLEAR GLASS BY PATTY SEVRE  

The Artwork you will find in the  Gallery is a product of  Artist Patty Sevre’s own two hands   -  14  Generations of crystal glass cutting  knowledge.    My family  Becker & Brisbois has cut and engraved glass and passed  the  tradition to succeeding generations over the course of 258 years.

Born Patricia Mae  Brisbois,  Becker in  Long Island, New York.   I   traced  my  heritage in glass back to  Johann Albrecht  Becker, who cut glass for The Royal Norwegian Glassworks in Nostetangen, Norway prior to establishing his own workshop in 1773.    The book Glass Through The Ages, 1948, Penquin books.

Patty learned the family  trade from her Grandfather George Becker and  Father Victor Charles Brisbois.

Patty Sevre is a master of her Art, creating unique and irreplaceable speciments of glass art with little more than revolving wheels, made of stone, copper, and diamond and water cooling the wheels.     Clearly, one of  the finest practitioners of this rare art form that  one will ever see.    Every aspect of her work is freehand and requires a remarkable keen eye and sure  hand.    With the exception of  a  lathe fitted with wheels.    Patty has to  shape  and sharpen her own wheels a trade in it –self, flat cut sharp edge,   a fine miter  point, and  a concave rounded shape.  All  varied to whatever cut she want’s to make in the design.   Patty uses no other aid  in the birth of her exceptional creations.  Study the superb engravings by  Patty and behold the quality, value and desirable nature of her work.

Kenneth Sevre my husband is a big part of our business, he love,s  engraving, and working with stained glass  door’s and window’s with  hand  engraving’s .     Ken and I do Hot Glass Tourch work,  together, glass blowing, and  fused glass work.

We teach  Glass engraving and sell the  lathe and wheels.

FAMILY HISTORY  1773 TO 2009 

AS THE WHEELS TURNED.      It  all started with Johann Albrech Becker  a German  born in Louis Lorraine, the wooded country south of the  Vosges.    He was  a Lotheringian, which is sometimes applied to those who were neither German  or Dutch.    The Royal  Norwegian  Glass Works employed  Johann Albrech Becker, a  Lotheringian, in Nostetagen.     The Royal Glass Works was on the water Communications to the sea.    The Norwegian Factory established at Notectagen in 1741 was the first to operate in the Danish – Norwegian  Kindom under  its  patron Christian VI of Denmark.    German glass workers  were engaged  to work at Nostetagen Factory to engrave  glassware.     This  same Factory employed the  Irish glass workers  to Cut the Deep Brilliant Cut Glassware.  This is how my family learned the  Rich Brilliant Cut Glass Trade, at this factory.  Johann Albrech Becker  engraved   goblets and bowls,  German style but angle- Venetian  design came from Nostetagen  Glass Works.  Johann Albrech Becker  engraved good quality crystal at this factory and was  a  excellent engraver with the Bohemain style.  Nostetagen Glass Works  closed down  in 1777 and all the artist worked  on their  own account.    Johann Becker made himself independent in 1773  with a workshop and established trade in Bragermes and he was  a competent engraver but not known to have signed any of his work.  Johann Albrech Becker  died about 1807.

FAMILY  GLASS CUTTER’S AND ENGRAVER’S   

Johann Albrech Becker  1773 - 1807

Nicolas Becker                  1793-1859                         Montbronn, France

Christopher Becker          1755-1815

Jacques Becker                  1830-1888

George Becker                   1856-1892

Charles Becker                  1870-1938                      Montbronn, France      Honesdale,  Pa. U.S.A.

George Becker                  1895-1970                       New York. N. Y

Philippe Brissbois             1700-

Nicolas Brisbois                1711-1771                       Mmouterhouse,  France                         

Benjamin Becker          

FAMILY GLASS CUTTER’S AND ENGRAVER’S

Louis Brisbois                       1834-1896          Lemberg Lorraine, France –New York, N.Y.  U.S.A.

Pete Brisbois                          1896-                  New York, N.Y.

Victor Brisbois                       1879-1944          Lemberg, Lorraine,  France  -New York, N.Y.

Victor Peter Brisbois  Becker  !937-2006         New York, N.Y.

Patricia Mae Brisbois, Becker ,Sevre     still keeping the wheels turning.

Kenneth James Sevre    

The American  Glass Trade  Directory  listed Becker &  Brisbois as cut glass   manufacturers from 1912 to 1930        Victor Brisbois  shop was at 514  Johnson Ave.  Brooklyn, N. Y. where he remained as  a cutglass  artist.  Victor   Brisbois  produced  cut glass lamps and ( Girandoles) which were chandelier’s.  he also  made large  hand cut clocks.    Victor Brisbois had his showrooms at 200  Fifth Ave,  New York City.     Victor Brisbois    died in 1944.    His son Victor Charles Brisbois  took over his place in business.

Benjamin Becker continued in the cut glass business at the old  address in Brooklyn, N. Y.   Then Charles  Becker  took over the shop and added another  cutting shop in  Glendale, Long Island, which he ran in conjunction with Benjamin Becker.     Charles Becker  died in 1937 and  his son George Becker  took over the business.

My Grandfather George Becker and  my  Father Victor Brisbois cut glass for Tiffany & co.  in New  York City. I started engraving with them in 1955.   Tiffany &  Co.  would advertise our art work  in the  New York Times.    We cut traditional designs like grape, thistle ,rye geese, and custom orders.  My father Victor Charles died  in 1968   and my grandfather died in 1970. 

I am Patricia Brisbois , Becker, Sevre  and still keep the wheels turning and cut fine art work.  Over the last 50 years   I have  cut special orders for Tiffany & Co., Shreve Crump  & Low, Boston, Ma. And  many Gift stores all over these United States and did consultant work teaching the fine art of glass cutting and designed the lathe for turning the wheels.  Now  I  hand carve Peoples Portraits in  glass, awards, corporate gifts, logos and any kind of art work  because crystal is my canvas.  I enjoy it  not because of  just the art  but for the History of it, and about  my Family.   I thank GOD who gave me the family background and the talent and the persistence to work and pass the art on.  God is good.