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Name
  
Pierre-Charles Canot


Died
  
1777

Pierre-Charles Canot

Engraving in the 18th century - Pierre Charles Canot


Pierre-Charles Canot (c.1710–77) was a French engraver who spent most of his career in England.

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Life

Canot was born in France in about 1710. In 1740 he moved to England, where he lived there the rest of his life. He was elected an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy in 1770, and died at Kentish Town, then just outside London, in 1777. He engraved a large number of landscapes, sea-pieces, and other subjects after artists including Jan van Goyen, Lorrain, and Jean Pillement. Joseph Strutt believed that his best prints were some large plates of maritime subjects after the works of Richard Paton.

Works

His prints include:

  • A Slight Breeze after Bakhuisen.
  • A Fresh Breeze after W. van de Velde.
  • A Calm after W. van de Velde.
  • A Storm after W. van de Velde.
  • Returning from Market after P. de Laer.
  • The Amorous Toper after D. Teniers.
  • The Dutch Smokers after Teniers.
  • The Dutch Cottage after Pillement.
  • Autumn after Pillement.
  • Winter after Pillement.
  • A Dutch Merry-making after Ostade.
  • Pyramus and Thisbe after L. Bramer.
  • The Tempest after S. de Vliegher.
  • An Italian Landscape after Gaspard Poussin.
  • A Landscape—after Claude Lorrain.
  • Sunrise, a marine after Claude Lorrain.
  • Two pastoral subjects after Rosa da Tivoli.
  • Views of Westminster Bridge and London Bridge after Scott.
  • Seven fox-hunting subjects after Wootton.

    • References

    Pierre-Charles Canot Wikipedia
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