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François Jacques Dequevauvillier
Biography
François Jacques Dequevauviller was the son of the French engraver Nicolas-Barthelemy François Dequevauviller (1745–1807).
1 portrait in the collection
Jules de Blosseville, c. 1830
François Jacques Dequevauvillier
Portrait, steel engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
François Bonneville
Biography
François Bonneville was one of the leading French engravers of the period of the Revolution, selling his works at the Imprimérie du Cercle Social on the Rue du Théâtre-Francais until 1797, and then, until 1814, at successive premises on the Rue Saint Jacques.
2 portraits in the collection
Jean-François de Galaup La Perouse
Biography
Jean-François de Galaup la Pérouse, Comte de la Pérouse (1741-1788), navigator, joined the French navy as a boy, rising to the rank of captain and serving with distinction and humanity in campaigns against the English in Hudson Bay in 1782.
4 portraits in the collection
Thomas Muir, 1800
François Bonneville
Portrait, copper-line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
La Pérouse, c. 1830s
N Mague, Blaisot
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Nicolas Baudin, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Commandant I'Expedition pour le tour du Monde et Specialement relatif aux Sciences et auz Arts, entreprise en I'An gme, 1800, 1800
François Bonneville after Joseph Jauffret
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Caroline Chisholm, 1853
J B. Hunt after Antoine François Jean Claudet
Portrait, steel engraving on paper
Purchased 2015
Jean Francois de Galaup de la Perouse, Commodore in the French Navy, 1798
James Heath, G G & J Robinson
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
La Perouse, from a miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby, n.d.
Thomas Woolnoth, Charles Knight
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
La Perouse, 1830s
Thomas Woolnoth, William Mackenzie, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London & New York
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
François Péron, c. 1805
Conrad Westermayr after Jean Henri Cless
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Jean Francois Rigaud
Biography
Jean François Rigaud, French/ Italian artist, trained in Italy, where he became a member of the Bologna Academy in 1766.
1 portrait in the collection
Francois Peron
Biography
François Péron (1775-1810), naturalist and explorer, served as a soldier from 1792 to 1794, in which period he was imprisoned and lost the sight of one eye.
6 portraits in the collection
Ambroise Tardieu
Biography
Ambroise Tardieu (1788–1841) was a leading French cartographer and engraver.
1 portrait in the collection
John Young
Biography
John Young, mezzotint engraver, studied under Valentine Green then worked with several of the painters who collaborated with Green, notably Benjamin West, John Hoppner and Johann Gerhard Huck.
1 portrait in the collection