François Boitard (1670 – c.1715) was a French Baroque artist.

Biography

Boitard was born in

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. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of

Raymond Lafage Raymond Lafage (1656, Lisle-sur-Tarn – 1684, near Toulouse) was a Baroque French artist, notable for his mythological prints and drawings. Biography According to the RKD he was a student of Jean-Pierre Rivalz, and in turn he taught that painter' ...

who later followed his style of making drawings and prints. He was able to attract a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the ''Pharaoh entering the Red Sea'' in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper. He copied this trick from Lafage, and Houbraken witnessed it himself in a tavern in London in 1709. According to the RKD he lived in Rome during the 1680s and is registered in London in 1709.François Boitard
in the

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He drew many book illustrations and was the teacher of Jacques André Joseph Camellot Aved. The engraver

Louis Peter Boitard Louis Peter Boitard ( fl. 1750) was a French engraver and designer, who worked in London. Life He was born in France, and was a pupil of Raymond Lafage. His father François Boitard brought him to England. The date of Louis Boitard's death is un ...

was his son. He died in

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References

François Boitard
on Artnet {{DEFAULTSORT:Boitard, Francois 1670 births 1715 deaths French printmakers Artists from Toulouse