Pierre-Charles Canot

1710 – 1777) was a French engraver who spent most of his career in England.

Christopher Norton is recorded as having studied under Pierre-Charles Canot. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Great Britain. Work by Pierre-Charles Canot is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Musée de la civilisation.

Canot was born in France in about 1710. In 1740 he moved to England, where he lived there the rest of his life. He was elected an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy in 1770, and died at Kentish Town, then just outside London, in 1777. He engraved a large number of landscapes, sea-pieces, and other subjects after artists including Jan van Goyen, Lorrain and Jean Pillement. Joseph Strutt believed that his best prints were some large plates of maritime subjects after the works of Richard Paton.

His prints include: • A Slight Breeze after Bakhuisen. • A Fresh Breeze after W. van de Velde. • A Calm after W. van de Velde. • A Storm after W. van de Velde. • Returning from Market after P. de Laer. • The Amorous Toper after D. Teniers. • The Dutch Smokers after Teniers. • The Dutch Cottage after Pillement. • Autumn after Pillement. • Winter after Pillement. • A Dutch Merry-making after Ostade. • Pyramus and Thisbe after L. Bramer. • The Tempest after S. de Vliegher. • An Italian Landscape after Gaspard Poussin. • A Landscape—after Claude Lorrain. • Sunrise, a marine after Claude Lorrain. • Two pastoral subjects after Rosa da Tivoli. • Views of Westminster Bridge and London Bridge after Scott. • Seven fox-hunting subjects after Wootton. • A true representation of Tower Hill as it appeared from a raised point of view from the north side on 18 August 1746, when the Earl of Kilmarnock and the Lord Balmerino were beheaded. [G Budd [P C Canot]

Pierre-Charles Canot is recorded with the occupation reproductive printmaker. Recorded with the occupation copper engraver. Recorded as printmaker, engraver, etcher and draftsperson.

Where Pierre-Charles Canot came from, and how Pierre-Charles Canot was formed. Born on 1 January 1710.