François Vivares

Daniel Lerpinière is recorded as having studied under François Vivares. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by François Vivares is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, Auckland Art Gallery, Musée de la civilisation and Museum De Lakenhal.

• Name — François Vivares • Born — 11 July 1709 • Birthplace — Saint-Jean-du-Bruel • Died — 28 November 1780 • Place of death — London

He was born in France at Saint-Jean-du-Bruel, near Montpellier, on 11 July 1709, and brought up in Geneva. At the age of 18 he moved permanently to London. He took on Peter Paul Benazech as apprentice in 1746. Vivares exhibited engravings with the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766 and 1768. During the last thirty years of his life he resided in Great Newport Street, central London, where he kept a print-shop. There he died on 28 November 1780, and was buried in Paddington churchyard. He was three times married, and had 31 children. His son Thomas Vivares also worked as an engraver.

His plates number about 160, and were largely published by John Boydell. Many were from the old masters: Claude, Gaspar Poussin, Il Bolognese, Vanderneer, and Cuyp; but a large proportion of them are views of English scenery after Thomas Gainsborough, Wootton, Thomas Smith of Derby, the Smiths of Chichester, and others. Claude's Enchanted Castle he left unfinished at his death, and it was completed by William Woollett. There is a portrait of Vivares, engraved by himself and James Caldwell.

A View in Craven Yorkshire of a beautiful and Romantic Natural Casade in Bolton Park, belonging to the Rt. A View of New Waterworks at Belton in Lincolnshire belonging to the Rt.