Pierre Fourdrinier (d. 1758)
Fourdrinier was a French engraver who worked chiefly in London. The majority of his output was small plates for illustrations used in books. Additionally, and on a larger scale, he engraved Nicolas Lancret’s Four Ages of Man and the plates for the folio The Villas of the Ancients.
According to Redgrave, he left ‘many descendants.’
Collections
British Museum, London
Metropolitan Museum, New York
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
National Portrait Gallery, London
Royal Academy, London
Royal Collection Trust
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Literature
Mackenzie, I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Redgrave, S (1970 reprint), A Dictionary of Artists of the English School, Kingsmead Reprints
Williamson, G C Ed. (1904), Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, George Bell and Sons
Fourdrinier was a French engraver who worked chiefly in London. The majority of his output was small plates for illustrations used in books. Additionally, and on a larger scale, he engraved Nicolas Lancret’s Four Ages of Man and the plates for the folio The Villas of the Ancients.
According to Redgrave, he left ‘many descendants.’
Collections
British Museum, London
Metropolitan Museum, New York
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
National Portrait Gallery, London
Royal Academy, London
Royal Collection Trust
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Literature
Mackenzie, I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Redgrave, S (1970 reprint), A Dictionary of Artists of the English School, Kingsmead Reprints
Williamson, G C Ed. (1904), Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, George Bell and Sons
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