Jean Jacques Flipart (1719 – 10 July 1782) was a French
engraver.
Biography
Flipart was born in Paris. His father was the engraver
Jean Charles Flipart, under whom he received his initial training in the engraver's art. His brother
Charles Joseph Flipart, who was later noted both for his engraving and painting oeuvre, also received his initial training under the father's hand.
Flipart later trained under French engraving master
Laurent Cars (1699–1771).[1] He died in Paris in 1782.
Engravings
Among the famous works of Flipart:
Portrait of J. B.
Greuze, A Sick Man surrounded by his Children (1767) and;Twelfth Night; after
Greuze.
Portrait of Jacques Dumont le Romain; after
de la Tour.
^Michael Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, biographical and critical Vol. I, George Bell and Sons, 4 York Street, Covent Garden, London (1886), p. 505