Étienne Ficquet (13 September 1719 – 11 December 1794) was a French engraver. Ficquet was born in Paris in 1719, and was instructed by G. F. Schmidt and Le Bas. He acquired great reputation by a set of small portraits which he engraved of distinguished literary characters of France. They are executed with extraordinary neatness and delicacy, and are very correctly drawn. One of his best plates is a portrait of Madame de Maintenon, after Mignard, now become very scarce. He engraved also several… Read more...

Author:

after Joseph Aved

Also known as:

Jacques André Joseph Camellot Aved

Jacques Enré Joseph Aved

Jacques André Joseph Camelot Aved

Jacques Aved

Jacques André Joseph Aved

Jacques-Andre-Joseph-Camelot Aved

Jacques Andre Joseph Aved

Jacques-André-Joseph Aved

Jacques-Andre-Joseph Camelot Aved

Camelot Aved

Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved

Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot Aved

Aved le Batave

Jacques Andre Joseph Camelot Aved

Born:

12th Jan, 1702

Dead:

4th Mar, 1766

Country:

France

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Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (12 January 1702 – 4 March 1766), also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), was a French painter of the 18th century and one of the main French Rococo portraitists. He painted among others the Ottoman Empire ambassador to France in 1742, Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Efendi. His father was a physician and he was orphaned when he was a little boy. He was raised in Amsterdam by one of his uncles, who was a captain in the Dutch Army. After his… Read more...