Guillaume Philippe Benoist

Guillaume Philippe Benoist (1725–70) was a French engraver, who spent the later part of his life in England.

John Entick, portrait from 1763.

Life

Benoist was born near Coutances, Normandy, in 1725. He lived in London during the later part of his life, and died there in 1770. He engraved some portraits, and a few other subjects.[1] Writing in the late 18th century, Joseph Strutt noted that "he chiefly confined himself to small plates, which he executed in a fine style, though with little taste."[2] He and Louis Truchy were the two engravers taken on by the English painter Joseph Highmore to engrave his Pamela series in 1743.

Works

The following plates are by him:[1]

Portraits

Subjects
  • Jupiter and Juno after Giuliano di Parma.
  • Bathsheba bathing after Bonnieu.

References
  1. Bryan 1886
  2. Strutt, Joseph (1786). "Benoist". A Biographical Dictionary Containing All the Engravers, From the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Day. 1. London: Robert Faulder. p. 82.

Sources
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Benoist, Guillaume Philippe". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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