François de Poilly

Training under Pierre Daret and Cornelis Bloemaert is recorded. Antoine Masson, Amelin and Elias Hainzelmann are recorded as having studied under François de Poilly. The recorded working language is French. Raphael is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by François de Poilly is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Nationalmuseum, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and Musea Brugge.

• Name — François de Poilly • Born — 1623 • Birthplace — Abbeville, France • Died — 1693 • Place of death — Paris, France • Known for — Engraving • Training — apprenticeship with parisian engraver Pierre Daret, Flemish engraver Cornelis Bloemaert

He was born in Abbeville, the son of a goldsmith who gave him his first drawing lessons. He was apprenticed to the Parisian engraver Pierre Daret. Poilly then travelled to Rome where he stayed for seven years with the engraver Cornelis Bloemaert, where he acquired mastership of the art. He died in Paris.

Poilly's is noted for approximately 400 engravings. He is known for mainly religious subjects after Raphael, Guido Reni, Annibale Carracci, Pierre Mignard, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Sébastien Bourdon, and Eustache Lesueur. He made the engraved illustrations of the ceremonial clothes of the orders mentioned in "Maximilien Bullot & Pierre Hélyot's Histoire des ordres...", Ed. Nicolas Gosselin, Paris, 1719 (Google Books). See François de Poilly – History of Orders in Wikimedia commons

François de Poilly is recorded as printmaker, draftsperson, copper engraver, graphic designer and publisher.