François Vivares

François Vivares (Saint-Jean-du-Bruel 11 July 1709 – 28 November 1780 London)[1] was a French landscape-engraver, active in England.

He was born in France at Saint-Jean-du-Bruel, near Montpellier, on 11 July 1709, and brought up in Geneva.

During the last thirty years of his life he resided in Great Newport Street, central London, where he kept a print-shop.

Many were from the old masters: Claude, Gaspar Poussin, Il Bolognese, Vanderneer, and Cuyp; but a large proportion of them are views of English scenery after Thomas Gainsborough, Wootton, Thomas Smith of Derby, the Smiths of Chichester, and others.

Claude's Enchanted Castle he left unfinished at his death, and it was completed by William Woollett.