Andrew Lawrence (engraver)

Lawrence's education included painting, drawing, languages and music, playing the violin and flute.

[1][2] Lawrence went to Paris, where he studied engraving under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, who employed him to etch plates for the low pay of thirty sous a day.

He executed more than thirty works, of which Saul consulting the Witch of Endor, after Salvator Rosa, was wholly engraved by him.

To avoid, as a Protestant, seizure of his goods on his death, he sold his effects to Pierre Soubeyran a few days before he died, to settle his debts.

He died in Paris on 8 July 1747, in the arms of Nicholas Blakey, and was buried in a timber-yard outside the Porte Saint-Antoine, then the usual place of interment for heretics.