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  • Louis Caravaque

    French painter, graphic artist, decorator, applied artist, teacher. Member of the third generation of a family of artists from Gascony who decorated ships in Marseille and Toulon. Worked at the Arsen...

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  • Friedrich Hartmann Barisien

    German painter, theatrical designer, decorator. Grandson of a civil engineer working for King Louis XIV of France, who fled to Dresden and assumed the surname of Parisien, which later became Barisien...

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  • Jacobus Houbraken

    Dutch engraver, collector. Son of the Dutch painter and art historian Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719). Born in Dordrecht (1698) and moved with his family to Amsterdam (1710). Studied engraving under his...

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  • Georg Johann Unverzagt

    German engraver, draughtsman, teacher. Accompanied the Russian mission of Lev Izmailov to China, travelling via Lake Baikal and through the Gobi Desert to Peking (1719–20). Published an account of th...

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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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