Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French artist
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Place of Birth: Abbeville, Hauts-de-France, France
About Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet
- Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, a celebrated engraver, was born at Abbeville in 1731.
- He went to Paris when young, and was instructed in the art by Charles Dupuis and Laurent Cars.
- His first manner was bold and free, and his plates in that style are preferred by some to the more finished and highly-wrought prints that he afterwards produced, although it must be confessed that the latter are executed with great neatness and delicacy.
- Beauvarlet married, in 1761, Catherine Jeanne Françoise Deschamps, a young lady who possessed some skill in engraving, but who died in 1769 at the age of thirty-one.
- He married again in 1770, but became for a second time a widower in 1779.
- Eight years later, in 1787, he married Marie Catherine Riollet, who, like his first wife, was an engraver.
- She was born in Paris in 1755, and is said to have died in 1788.
- Beauvarlet himself died in Paris in 1797.
- The following are his principal works:
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