Charles Clément Bervic

Due to an error in transcribing the baptismal register, he is also now known as Jean Guillaume Bervic.

He served his first apprenticeship under Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, then left aged 14 for the studio of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille.

He became a member of the Classe de Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts Section) of the Institut Impérial de France in 1803 and authored the chapter on engraving for the Institut's reports to the Emperor in 1808 on the progress of the arts, literature and sciences since 1789.

In 1809, Bervic was elected an associate member, fourth class, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, predecessor to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[2] Bervic married the painter Marie-Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond in 1788, but she died later that year.