Incisore e disegnatore francese, Jacques-Philippe si è formato alla scuola di Nicolas-Henri Tardieu e di Antoine Herisset. Egli ha operato principalmente a Parigi, tra il 1730 ed il 1783, dirigendovi uno dei più importanti ateliers della città e divenendo uno dei più famosi incisori francesi...
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Incisore, disegnatore e pittore francese, figlio di un calderaio fabbricatore di lastre di rame. Presto si è spostato a Parigi dove ha iniziato la sua attività di bulinista. ...
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Draftsman, painter and French engraver, one of the major exponents of the early Baroque, active at the Dukedom of Lorraine between 1602 and 1616 where he made decorations and paintings, most of which are lost today....
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English painter and engraver, he is considered to be the most important artistic personality of British Enlightenment. Son of a school teacher, he learnt the art of engraving at the laboratory of the silversmith Ellis Gamble....
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Fourth of six brothers, Francisco was born in a village near Zaragoza, in a small bourgeois family. His father José was a goldsmith master, while his mother Gracia Lucientes was a “Hidalga”, i.e. belonging to the lowest level of Spanish nobility. With his family he...
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Austrian engraver, draftsman and painter, son of the carpenter Anthon Weirauther and Gertraud Orner. Orphan at the age of seven, he was assigned to an aunt with whom he remained until the age of fourteen....
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German draftsman and etcher. After a period of training in Strasbourg he moved to Paris where he opened a thriving school of drawing and engraving, attended by numerous students, some of whom became known engravers: Weirotter, Beisson, Byrne, Daudet, Schultze, Klauber etc ...
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Draftsman and English engraver about whom we have little information. It is known that he did his apprenticeship with a painter from Clerkenwell, at that time London's artists' district. Later he moved to Rome where he improved himself in drawing and engraving....
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French engraver and miniator, Etienne's son was nicknamed ' le Romain', for staying long time in Rome. Bernard Picart was one of the most prolific and talented engravers of his time, educated in the art of chalcography by his father and by Benoît Audran, a member...
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French engraver born in Vineuil near Blois in the department of Loir-et-Cher. A farmer's son, he was a student of the painter Sebastien Burdon and of Cornelis Bloemaert, a famous Dutch painter and etcher, both also active in Italy....
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