Background
The son of the French-born ceramic artist Antonin Boullemier, who had moved to Stoke in 1872 to work as a decorator at Minton"s factory, Lucien Boullemier worked as a ceramic artist and painter.
painter association football player
The son of the French-born ceramic artist Antonin Boullemier, who had moved to Stoke in 1872 to work as a decorator at Minton"s factory, Lucien Boullemier worked as a ceramic artist and painter.
A right-half, he played competitively for Stoke, Burslem Portuguese Vale, Philadelphia Hibernian (United States), Northampton Town, and Northern Nomads. He played for Stoke Alliance, Chesterton White Star and Stone Town, before joining Stoke in August 1896. He played in seven First Division matches for the "Potters" during the 1896-1897 season.
He then signed for Burslem Portuguese Vale in the summer of 1897.
He also scored goals in home wins over Burton Swifts and Newton Heath. He played 32 matches in the 1900-1901 season, scoring goals in home wins over Blackpool and Chesterfield.
He made 41 appearances in the 1901-1902 campaign, playing every one of the club"s 34 league games. After eight games in the 1902-1903 season, he announced his retirement from football to concentrate on his artwork.
He emigrated to the United States, where he played for Philadelphia Hibernian, and worked for the Lenox China factory in New Jersey.
His art career seemingly not taking off in the way he had envisaged, he returned to England in 1905 and joined Northampton Town. In November he made an unsuccessful comeback at Portuguese Vale, where he played just one league game. He retired for good after playing for Northern Nomads and North Staffs Nomads.
On his return to England, Boullemier worked at Mintons factory and then at the Soho Pottery in Cobridge, before being recruited by C.T. Maling of Newcastle upon Tyne to take charge of their decorating department.
Until 1926 he had been engaged in painting quite high class porcelain, and he introduced a range of more glamorous designs into the mass-market Maling range, using gold printing techniques and lustred surfaces. Three years later, he left to work for the New Hall Pottery Company in Staffordshire, where he produced a range called "Boumier Ware", each piece of which carried his facsimile signature.
With Burslem Portuguese Vale.