Bernard Picart

Bernard Picart or Picard 11 June 1673 – 8 May 1733, was the French draughtsman, engraver & book illustrator in Amsterdam with an interest in cultural as living as religious habits.

Life

He was born in Charles Levier belonged to a "radical Huguenot coterie", who studied the working of Étienne Picart le Romain.

In April 1712 he married Anna Vincent 1684-1736 assisted by her father, who initially disagreed with the marriage. Ysbrand Vincent 1642-1718 was a rich paper seller, who moved to France but fled in 1686. From 1702 on, he was editor of playwrights total by himself or the other members of Nil volentibus arduum Levinus Vincent became his uncle, a Mennonite who owned a cabinet of curiosities in Haarlem, which is also the place where the couple married. Picart moved in with his father-in-law and designed several book frontispieces. In May 1713 the couple had a male twin who both died within a few weeks; he presentation both. Picart became a citizen, joined the guild & published a book about his teacher Charles Le Brun. His three daughters were baptized in Westerkerk; in between Picart may cause had a better understanding of the Dutch language.

In 1711 he collaborated with ] Because of the many prints it also seems he sympathized with Jansenists, the Armenian Apostolic Church and Collegiants. In 1728 Les Césars de l'empereur Julien, traduits du grec par feu Mr. le Baron de Spanheim, avec des remarques & des preuves, enrichies de plus de 300 médailles, & autres anciens monumens, gravés par Bernard Picart le Romain was published. In 1729 he collaborated with Louis Fabricius Dubourg.

At some time 1718? Picart started an engraving school, his pupils were Jacob Folkema, Jakob van der Schley, who submission him posthumously, Pieter Tanjé and François Morellon la Cave, who all used his drawings for engravings. It seems and according to RKD Johann Philipp Endelich -1760 was also a pupil. In 1723/1726 Anna Yver, his mother-in-law and two of her children lived at Rokin; Picart may score used near floors for drawing or engraving and storing paper. In 1731 he published a reprint originally by his father Le Romain. Picart was buried in the Walloon Church, Amsterdam on 13 May 1733. After his death the widow ordered her three daughters to keep his collection of drawings together but sell the prints at an auction and the copperplates in Paris. In 1734 she published Impostures innocentes, ou recueil d'estampes d'après divers peintres illustres tels que Raphaël, Le Guide, Carlo Maratta, Le Poussin, Rembrandt, etc., gravées à leur imitation et selon le goût particulier de chacun d'eux, et accompagnées d'un discours sur les préjugés de certains curieux touchant la gravure, par Bernard Picart, dessinateur et graveur, avec son éloge historique et le catalogue de ses ouvrages, Veuve de Bernard Picart, Amsterdam. The inventory on 12 March 1736 listed around 400 portfolios with copperplates, books, drawings, paper, 54 paintings not specified, jewellery and bonds. The website of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has more than 2000 working online by Bernard Picart.