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==Early life==

==Early life==

Revere was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 21, 1734, the son of Apollos De Rivoire, a French Huegunot refugee and who came to the colonies as a child (and had Anglicized his name to Paul Revere), and Deborah Hitchborn, a daughter of a shipping owner.  His schooling was meager, but he managed to learn to read, write, and do arithmetic before he left school for good at the age of thirteen.

Revere was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 21, 1734, the son of Apollos De Rivoire, a French Huegunot refugee who came to the colonies as a child (and had Anglicized his name to Paul Revere), and Deborah Hitchborn, a daughter of a shipping owner.  His schooling was meager, but he managed to learn to read, write, and do arithmetic before he left school for good at the age of thirteen.

In his father's shop he learned the art and trade of the silversmith, fashioning gold and silver objects for sale to the wealthy, and young Revere would grow into one of the leading artists in silver, as well as being one of the very few who would finish a project rather than pass it on to another engraver.  He had also branched into other aspects of the metal industry, fashioning parts for spectacles and false teeth, and copper engraving for illustrations in books and newspapers; his best-known work in that later field was ''The Boston Massacre'', illustrating that event in 1770.

In his father's shop he learned the art and trade of the silversmith, fashioning gold and silver objects for sale to the wealthy, and young Revere would grow into one of the leading artists in silver, as well as being one of the very few who would finish a project rather than pass it on to another engraver.  He had also branched into other aspects of the metal industry, fashioning parts for spectacles and false teeth, and copper engraving for illustrations in books and newspapers; his best-known work in that later field was ''The Boston Massacre'', illustrating that event in 1770.