Antoine Benoist (engraver)

[1] That year he engraved a Peak District view for Thomas Smith of Derby, of Dovedale, in a collection later reprinted by John Boydell.

[5][6] In the 1740s Benoist with Louis Truchy produced the engravings of the Pamela series of 12 paintings by Joseph Highmore.

[1][8] Benoist made a frieze on two plates representing The Grand Procession of the Scald Miserable Masons, dated 1742, and recording a mocking event on 27 April (O.S.)

[9] Vic Gatrell considers that this work documents what was effectively the last gasp of the rough music tradition of London, through disrespectful spectacles in which "men on donkeys blew cowhorns and banged drums": Its ambition is commemorated in what is one of the largest of all eighteenth-century topographical engravings.

The organisers of the "Mock Masons" were Paul Whitehead and Esquire Carey, surgeon to Frederick, Prince of Wales.

[16] Some engravings for Frederick, Prince of Wales, views of Malta reproducing works by Joseph Goupy, may have been by Antoine or by C. L.

[18][19] Some etchings of the battles and sieges of the French armies in the reign of Louis XIV are again attributed to these two engravers.

[3] According to the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, C. L. Benoist engraved sporting scenes of his design, and at some point returned to Paris.