Biography and information
In 1764 he was invited to the Petersburg Academy of Sciences and arts; in 1765 he entered the Academy of fine arts for training in engraving; in 1767 he was awarded the "appointed" for "the labors of historical engravings" and in the same year, dismissed from service at the Academy of arts; a second in 1785, enlisted at the Academy of fine arts and remained until 1795; in 1794 he received the title of academician and appointed Advisor to the Academy of fine arts. In 1795, dismissed from teaching at the Academy of fine arts. In 1804 he was granted a pension of 200 rubles a year.
(Kondakov)
Engraver on copper, the native of mountains. Reims, studied in Paris, travelled in Holland, England and Germany, and in 1764 was in St. Petersburg, where he was invited to teach engraving at the Academy of Sciences and Arts, in place of G. F. Schmidt . First class of own in Russia was engraving 30 images of the burial of Empress Elizabeth , working on that (3 years), the artist almost lost his eyesight, but which, on the orders from above were not quite finished and not released. In 1767 the own etched portrait of Empress Catherine II , with the original Eriksen , the most similar of all. The following year he was dismissed from Academy of Sciences, but remained in St. Petersburg until the end of his life. Of all his works, beyond the aforementioned 30 boards, known 30, including 18 executed in Russia; the latter only portraits. The own engraved small strokes and very diligently finishing his work. He obliged his initial education from the best Russian engravers, N. And. Utkin , talented and soon dead I. Bersenev .
