Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810), an important Southampton silversmith and craftsman, created richly detailed, beautifully ornate, and shimmering eighteenth-century objects: teapots, pepper boxes, porringers, tankards and jewelry. This is the first museum exhibition devoted to exploring Pelletreau’s life and work since the Brooklyn Museum mounted one in 1959. Accompanied by a beautiful full-length catalog being published by Preservation Long Island, Elias Pelletreau features nearly 170 artifacts; silver, paintings, and furniture will illuminate the life and times of one of this region’s most significant early American artisans. The Long Island Museum has assembled many important loans from museums and private collections across the nation, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yale University Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, and many others. Elias Pelletreau realizes more than 40 years of groundbreaking research by Dean Failey (1947-2015), a nationally-prominent decorative arts expert. Failey began assembling this project several years before his passing. Generous support for the Elias Pelletreau exhibition has been provided by The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, The Decorative Arts Trust, The Huguenot Society and Paul Guarner.