Johann Christian Neuber (German, 1736–1808; active Dresden 1762-c.1800)

b. 1736 — d. 1808

Johann Christian Neuber was born in 1736 in the town of Neuwernsdorf in Saxony. At the age of sixteen, he registered as an apprentice in the Dresden workshop of the goldsmith Johann Friedrich Tectaon, where he remained for six years. In 1762 he became one of Dresden's master goldsmiths and only five years later was named a court artisan to Friedrich Augustus III (1750−1827), Elector of Saxony. Sometime before 1775, he was appointed the Elector's court jeweler.