Pierre-Charles Canot (c.1710–77) was a French
engraver who spent most of his career in England.
Life
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.[1] 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.[2]
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 ]
^Strutt, Joseph (1786). "P.C. Canot". A Biographical Dictionary Containing All the Engravers, From the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Day. Vol. 1. London: Robert Faulder. p. 173.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Bryan, Michael (1886).
"Canot, Pierre Charles". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.