The Goldsmith's Apprentice Stockholm, 1662. A child is born into a Huguenot family, the son of a merchant who manages the royal indoor tennis court. The boy’s path begins not with a brush, but with the heavy, precise tools of a goldsmith. At fifteen, he enters an apprenticeship, learning the discipline of metal and fire. By 1682, he is a journeyman. A brief three-month stint in Paris pulls him away from Sweden, yet the pull of his roo…