Jacob Fendt

Jacob Fendt, born in 1815, was the third son of Bernhard Simon Fendt I's second marriage — one of a whole generation of Fendt brothers whose lives, by every account, were short and often hard. He trained and worked in his father's Dean Street shop, later working for John Alvey Turner in Cornhill and occasionally for Richard Davis of Coventry Street. He died at Blue Anchor Court, Whitecross Street, ...Read More Finsbury, in October 1849, not yet thirty-five.

George Hart's *The Violin: its Famous Makers and their Imitators* rated him the most skilled of the three Fendt brothers who followed their father into the trade, calling him a copyist whose ingenuity "transcend[ed]" any other of his generation — though the instruments that actually survive under his name (identified by a label or brand, sometimes tucked beneath the fingerboard) tell a plainer story: somewhat roughly made, finished in a crude red varnish. Consumption, which claimed several of his brothers, may well have shortened whatever career he might otherwise have had. Read Less

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