About James Mérigot
Lived 1760 – 1824 (aged 63–64). James Mérigot was a French painter, printmaker, publisher and copper engraver.
James Merigot (1760–1824), also Jacques Mérigot (or Jacques-François Mérigot II, J. Mérigot), was a French engraver and publisher who pursued much of his career in London. He was the son of the Parisian publisher Jacques-François Mérigot I.
He produced 20 aquatints from John Warwick Smith's watercolours to illustrate Views of the Lakes of Cumberland, with twenty aquatints by James Merigot (1791–5). He also did the engravings for A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity – recently executed from drawings made upon the spot (1815). He wrote an artists' manual for amateurs in 1821.
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Who was James Mérigot?
French engraver and aquatinter (1760–1824)
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James Mérigot was born in 1760 in Paris.
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James Mérigot died in 1824 in London.
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James Mérigot was a painter, printmaker, publisher and copper engraver.
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James Mérigot was French.
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