Guillaume Philippe Benoist
John Entick, portrait from 1763.
Guillaume Philippe Benoist (1725–70) was a French engraver, who spent the later part of his life in England.
Life[]
Benoist was born near Coutances, Normandy, in 1725. He lived in London during the later part of his life, and died there in 1770. He engraved some portraits, and a few other subjects.[1] Writing in the late 18th century, Joseph Strutt noted that "he chiefly confined himself to small plates, which he executed in a fine style, though with little taste."[2]
Works[]
The following plates are by him:[1]
Portraits[]
- Galileo Galilei after F. Villamena.
- The President de Montesquieu.
- Alexander Pope.
- Rosen de Rosenstein, physician.
- Sir Isaac Newton.
- Blaise Pascal.
- Albert Haller.
- Mlle. Clairon, actress.
- Jacques Andre Joseph Aved, painter after Aved.
Subjects[]
- Jupiter and Juno after Giuliano di Parma.
- Bathsheba bathing after Bonnieu.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bryan 1886
- ^ Strutt, Joseph (1786). "Benoist". A Biographical Dictionary Containing All the Engravers, From the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Day. 1. London: Robert Faulder. p. 82.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Benoist, Guillaume Philippe". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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