Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

When he showed some aptitude for drawing, she placed him in an apprenticeship with the architect and engraver, Antoine Hérisset [fr][1] He also received professional advice from Nicolas-Henri Tardieu, and was inspired by the works of Gérard Audran.

[2] Through Tardieu, he met the financier and art collector, Pierre Crozat, who was engaged in a project to have all the paintings in his collection engraved.

His students included most of the famous engravers in France, as well as two Englishmen, Robert Strange and William Wynne Ryland, who were sent there by their government on a scholarship.

[1] He convinced them to give him another chance, with another genre, received approval to do so, and submitted two "Conversations Galantes", after Nicolas Lancret.

Thanks to a recommendation from Jean-Baptiste Descamps, he also became a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen in 1748.