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

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brought him to England. The date of Louis Boitard's death is unknown, being stated by some authorities as 1758, by others as after 1760. The earlier date seems much more likely if he was indeed buried in 1758. Louis Boitard was buried 30th September 1758 in the church of

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, London.Parish Register

Works

He made engravings after

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, Christophe Huet,

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, and others. One of his best-known plates represents the Rotunda at

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, after Pannini. In 1747 he supplied forty-one large plates for Joseph Spence's ''Polymetis''. He engraved the illustrations to John Gilbert Cooper's ''Life of Socrates'' (1749), Robert Paltock's ''The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man'' (1750), and

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He executed many vignettes, designs, and portraits, among those one of

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; and he is said to have been a humorist and a member of the Artists' Club.

Family

His wife was English; and he had a son of the same name and profession.

Notes

;Attribution

References

External links

British Museum page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boitard, Louis Peter Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 18th-century French engravers