 He enjoyed the patronage of the greatest clients of the day and was rivaled only by his fellow, Huguenot David Willaume.Although not common, it was not unknown for women in the Harache family to be practising goldsmiths in their own right; Heal’s reference to “Mrs.Harache, silversmith, corner of Great Suffolk Street, 1699” may well have been correct, since Pierre’s wife, Anne, appears in the denization list of 1682, giving her the right to trade in her own name.