See also:JEAN See also:AUDRAN
, See also:nephew of See also:Gerard, was See also:born at See also:Lyons in 1667
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After having received instructions from his See also:father, he went to See also:Paris to perfect himself in the See also:art of See also:engraving under his See also:uncle, next to whom he was the most distinguished member of his See also:family
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At the See also:age of twenty his See also:genius began to display itself in a surprising manner; and his subsequent success was such, that
in 1707 he obtained the See also:title of engraver to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV., who allowed him a See also:pension, with apartments in the Gobelins; and the following See also:year he was made a member of the Royal See also:Academy
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He was eighty years of age before he quitted the graver, and nearly ninety when he died
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The best prints of this artist are those which appear not so pleasing to the See also:eye at first sight
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In these the See also:etching constitutes a See also:great See also:part; and he has finished them in a bold, rough See also:style
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The " See also:Rape of the Sabines," after Poussin, is considered his masterpiece
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