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(2) Bernard Picart
(b Paris, 11 June 1673; d Amsterdam, 8 May 1733). Painter, draughtsman and engraver, son of (1) Etienne Picart. He studied drawing at the Académie Royale and engraving with his father and with Benoît Audran I and Sébastien Leclerc (i), through whom he obtained many commissions. His first signed engraving (1693) was the Hermaphrodite after Poussin. In 1696 he left France. The Antwerp academy awarded Picart a prize for drawing, and he executed several engravings there, before moving in 1698 to the Netherlands, where he worked mainly on book illustrations. At the end of that year he returned to France. Having been widowed late in the year 1708, he set off again on a journey to Sweden, but he went no further than the Netherlands; Picart was in The Hague in 1710 and settled in Amsterdam the following year, converting to the Protestant faith and marrying again.
Part of the Picart family
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