Christian Wiltberger
John Christian Wiltberger Sr. was an American silversmith, active in Philadelphia.
Wiltberger was born in Philadelphia, where he apprenticed about 1782 to Richard Humphreys. There he married Ann Warner on March 26, 1791, with whom he had 8 children, and worked from 1793-1797 as a silversmith and jeweler. For some time he partnered with Samuel Alexander as WILTBERGER & ALEXANDER, but as the following advertisements in the Federal Gazette indicate, that partnership was dissolved in June 1797:
Wiltberger then continued to work as a silversmith from 1797-1819. Rembrandt Peale painted his portrait in 1818. His work is collected in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Winterthur Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery.
