Louis Peter Boitard
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Life
He was born in France, and was a pupil of Raymond LafageRaymond Lafage
Raymond Lafage was a Baroque French artist, notable for his mythological prints and drawings.-Biography:...
. His father François Boitard
François Boitard
François Boitard , was a French Baroque artist.-Biography:According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Raymond Lafage who later followed his style of making drawings and prints...
brought him to England. The date of his death is unknown, being stated by some authorities as 1758, by others as after 1760.
Works
He made engravings after CanalettoCanaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal better known as Canaletto , was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.- Early career :...
, Christophe Huet, Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini was a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ....
, and others. One of his best-known plates represents the Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens
Ranelagh Gardens
Ranelagh Gardens were public pleasure gardens located in Chelsea, then just outside London, England in the 18th century.-History:The Ranelagh Gardens were so called because they occupied the site of Ranelagh House, built in 1688-89 by the first Earl of Ranelagh, Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital ,...
, after Pannini. In 1747 he supplied forty-one large plates for Joseph Spence
Joseph Spence
Joseph Spence was a Bahamian guitarist and singer. He is well known for his vocalizations and humming while performing on guitar...
's Polymetis, and he engraved the illustrations to Robert Paltock
Robert Paltock
Robert Paltock was an English novelist and attorney. His most famous work is The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man .Paltock was admired by Walter Scott, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb....
's Peter Wilkins, 1750, and the Scribleriad of Richard Owen Cambridge
Richard Owen Cambridge
Richard Owen Cambridge was a British poet.Cambridge was born in London. He was educated at Eton and at St John's College, Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree, he took up residence at Lincolns Inn in 1737. Four years later he married, and went to live at his country seat of...
, 1751.
He executed many vignettes
Vignette (graphic design)
Vignettes, in graphic design, are decorative designs usually in books, used both to separate sections or chapters and to decorate borders.In Descriptive, or Analytical Bibliography for the hand-press period a vignette refers to an engraved design printed using a copper-plate press, on a page that...
, designs, and portraits, among those one of Elizabeth Canning
Elizabeth Canning
Elizabeth Canning was an English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will in a hayloft for almost a month...
; and he is said to have been a humorist and a member of the Artists' Club.
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