18th Century

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  • Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

    French engraver. Son of a hairdresser who was brought up in poverty by his widowed mother. Studied under Antoine Hérisset and Nicolas Henri Tardieu in Paris (from 1721). Engraved the drawings of Jean...

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  • Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

    French engraver, painter. Born to a family of ornamental sculptors and gilders in Metz (1734). Studied under François Boucher in Paris (from 1750). Married a much older woman (1752) and allegedly fle...

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  • Christian Albrecht Wortmann

    German engraver. Studied under Johann Georg Wolfgang in Berlin. Worked in Berlin, Kassel, Leipzig and Dresden, engraving portraits of Landgrave Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt, King Augustus II of Po...

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  • Ignaz Sebastian Klauber

    German engraver. Uncle of Carl Kollmann. Studied engraving under his father Johann Klauber in Augsburg, in Rome and under Johann Georg Wille in Paris (1780s). Member of the Académie de peinture et de...

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  • Adriaan Schoonebeek

    Dutch engraver, cartographer. Studied engraving under Romeyn de Hooghe (1676–79). Taught etching to Peter the Great during his Great Embassy to Holland (1697) and was invited to Russia to work on com...

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  • Thomas Malton the Elder

    English engraver, draughtsman. Father of Thomas Malton the Younger (1748–1804). Worked in London, where he engraved aquatint views of St Petersburg (1798–90) after the drawings of Joseph Hearn, who l...

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  • Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis

    French engraver. Younger brother of the engraver Charles Dupuis (1685–1742). Studied under Gaspard Duchange, whose daughter he later married (1737). Member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sc...

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  • Gérard de la Barthe

    French artist active in the second half of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Studied under Joseph-Marie Vien. Worked in Russia (1787–1810). Painted a series of views of Moscow and ...

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  • Benjamin Patersson

    Swedish painter, engraver. Born to the family of a customs scribe in Varberg (1748). Studied under S. Frick in Gothenburg, where he was a member of the Society of Painters. Lived and worked in Riga (...

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  • John Augustus Atkinson

    English painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator. Moved to St Petersburg (1784) with his uncle, the engraver James Walker, who was invited to Russia by Catherine the Great. Painted Russian history...

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