Editing Duncan Phyfe (section)

{{Short description|American cabinetmaker}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Duncan Phyfe
| image              = Portrait of Duncan Phyfe.jpg
| caption            = 
| imagesize          = 
| birth_name         = Duncan Fife
| birth_date         = 1768<ref name="Britannica"/>
| birth_place        = [[Abernethy and Kincardine]], [[Scotland]]
| occupation         = Cabinetmaker, businessman
| death_date         = 16 August 1854<ref name="Britannica">{{cite web | url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/458473/Duncan-Phyfe | title=Duncan Phyfe | publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica | accessdate=6 January 2015}}</ref>
| death_place        = [[New York City]], [[United States]]
| spouse             = Rachel Louzada (ca. 1781–1851)
| children           = Michael (1794–1836)<ref name="Britannica"/>
Mary (1795–1870)

William (1799–ca. 1802)

Eliza (1801–1890)

William (1803–1875)

Edward (1808–1887)

James (presumably dead by 1814)

Isabella (ca. 1814–1841)

James Duncan (1814–1887)
| years_active       = 1792–1847 (55 years as an independent cabinetmaker)<ref name="Britannica"/>
}}

'''Duncan Phyfe''' (1768 – 16 August 1854)<ref name="Britannica" /> was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.

Rather than create a new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he became a major spokesman for [[Neoclassicism]] in the United States, influencing a generation of American cabinetmakers.